# latus
## English
### Etymology

From Latin latus (“side”) of uncertain etymology.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈleɪ.təs/
* Rhymes: -eɪtəs

### Noun

latus (plural latera)
* (anatomy, medicine) Synonym of flank.

#### Related terms

* latus rectum

### Anagrams

* Altus, Aults, Austl., Tauls, Tulsa, sault, talus

## Latin
### Etymology 1

Earlier *tlātus, from Proto-Italic *tlātos, from Proto-Indo-European *tl̥h₂tós, from the root *telh₂-.
Compare Ancient Greek τλάντος (tlántos, “bearing, suffering”), τολμέω (tolméō, “to carry, bear”), τελαμών (telamṓn, “broad strap for bearing something”), Ἄτλας (Átlas, “the 'Bearer' of Heaven”), Lithuanian tiltas (“bridge”), Sanskrit तुला (tulā, “balance”), तुलयति (tulayati, “lifts up, weighs”), Latin tollō (“to bear, support”), tulī (“I bore”), tolerō (“bear, endure”), tellūs (“bearing earth”), Old English þolian (“to endure”) (English thole), Old Armenian թողում (tʻołum, “I allow”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈlaː.tus/, [ˈɫ̪äːt̪ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈla.tus/, [ˈläːt̪us]

#### Participle

lātus (feminine lāta, neuter lātum); first/second-declension participle
* perfect passive participle of ferō:
** borne, carried, having been carried
** suffered, endured, having been suffered
** reported, having been reported

##### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

### Etymology 2

From earlier *stlātus, from Proto-Italic *stlātos, from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to stretch out, extend, spread”) or *stelh₃- (“broad”). Also compare stlatta.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈlaː.tus/, [ˈɫ̪äːt̪ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈla.tus/, [ˈläːt̪us]

#### Adjective

lātus (feminine lāta, neuter lātum, comparative lātior, superlative lātissimus, adverb lātē); first/second-declension adjective
* wide, broad
* spacious, extensive
* wide-ranging
    Synonyms: capāx, spatiōsus
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.545–546:vagantur incūstōdītae lāta per arva bovēscattle wander unguarded through spacious fields

##### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

##### Derived terms

* sēnsū lātō

##### Descendants

* Aromanian: lat
* → Catalan: lat
* Franco-Provençal: lá
* French: lé
* Old Galician-Portuguese: lado
* Italian: lato
* → Portuguese: lato
* Romanian: lat
* Spanish: lato
* Walloon: lêye

### Etymology 3

Uncertain. Some indicate Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”) or *stelh₃- (“broad”) (in which case later would be its masculine form).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈla.tus/, [ˈɫ̪ät̪ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈla.tus/, [ˈläːt̪us]

#### Noun

latus n (genitive lateris); third declension
* (military) side, flank
    Synonym: cornu
* side (e.g., of a shape)
** c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.24:Duabus portis ab utroque latere turriumfrom two gates on each sides of the turrets

##### Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | latus | latera |
| Genitive | lateris | laterum |
| Dative | laterī | lateribus |
| Accusative | latus | latera |
| Ablative | latere | lateribus |
| Vocative | latus | latera |

##### Derived terms

* laterālis
* quadrilaterus

##### Descendants

* Asturian: llau
* → English: latus
* Franco-Provençal: las
* Old French: lez
** French: lez, lès
* Galician: lado; ⇒ ladrizo
* Italian: lato
* Portuguese: lado
* Romanian: lat, latură
* Sicilian: latu
* Old Spanish: lado
** Spanish: lado

### References

* “latus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “latus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* latus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* latus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to have good lungs: bonis lateribus esse to place the cavalry on the wings: equites ad latera disponere (B. G. 6. 8) to fall upon the enemy's flank: in latus hostium incurrere (ambiguous) to be always at a person's side: ab alicuius latere non discedere (ambiguous) to belong to the king's bodyguard: a latere regis esse
* Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag
* De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 329-30

## Latvian
### Noun

latus m
* accusative plural of lats