Latin
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Middle English Latyn, Latyne, Latin, from Old French latin, latyn, from Latin latīnus, from Latium (“the region around Rome”) + -īnus (adjective suffix). Displaced or merged with Old English Lǣden. Doublet of Ladin and Ladino.
Inflected forms:
form: Latins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Latin: the language spoken in ancient Rome and other cities of Latium.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Africa was the natural leader because there the number of Christians who were of Roman origin and Latin speech was probably far greater than in so cosmopolitan a city as Rome.
gloss: Of or relating to the script of the language spoken in ancient Rome and many modern alphabets.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Serbo-Croatian incunabula printed in Latin letters are indubitably the products of a very modest establishment.
gloss: Of or relating to ancient Rome or its Empire.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The earliest Latin culture of Ireland was heavily indebted to that of Britain[…]
gloss: Of or relating to Latium (modern Lazio), the region around Rome.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: From the Campagna and the Latin hills, the flame of rebellion spread to Antium and Terracina, and to the most remote allies of the Romans, the cities of the Campanian plains.
gloss: Of or relating to the customs and people descended from the ancient Romans and their Empire.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Major for joy, Minor for sadness, is apparently a significance which the German nations read into these scales; while the Semitic, Latin, and Slavic nations do not share this conception.
Therefore, although Portugal is a Latin culture, the significant African influence in Brazil creates a culture that cannot be defined simply as Latin; consequently, Brazilians prefer to define themselves as South American[…]
gloss: Of or from Latin America or of Latin American culture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: As such, today's Latin music is a synthesis of European, African, and the few indigenous elements that remain.
gloss: Roman Catholic; of or pertaining to the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Latin bishop now took the Greek bishop by the hand and conducted him to his throne[…]
gloss: A person native to ancient Rome or its Empire.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: This appears incontestably from the manner in which the Latins wrote Greek words and names[…]
gloss: A member of an Italic tribe that included the early inhabitants of the city of Rome, and from about 1000 BC inhabited the region known as Old Latium.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A person from one of the modern European countries (including Italy, Spain etc.) whose language is descended from Latin.
pos: noun
examples: No; the test of the contrast between modern Latins and modern Teutons is exactly like the test of the contrast between modern Latins and ancient Latins.
Latins are always conspicuously dangerous when they are serving an unpopular cause for money.
gloss: A person from Latin America.
pos: noun
examples: In the use of patent medicine the average Latin resembles the American of fifty years ago, who generally had a bottle of some concoction on which he depended whenever he felt out of sorts.
A great country will be when men and women, Africans and Europeans and Latins and Asians are accepted as human, as valuable
gloss: A person adhering to Roman Catholic practice.
pos: noun
examples: The modern Latins have been in the habit of blaming the Greek and other Eastern Liturgies for not consecrating by the recital of OUR SAVIOUR'S words of Institution[…]
Derived words: Latin-1
Latin alphabet
Latin America
Latin cross
Latin grammar school
Latin hip-hop
Latin Quarter
Latin school
Latin script
Latin square
Latin time
Traditional Latin Mass
Vulgar Latin
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: latin
lang: Arabic
word: لَاتِينِيّ
roman: lātīniyy
lang: Arabic
word: الرُّومِيَّة
roman: ar-rūmiyya
lang: Armenian
word: լատինական
roman: latinakan
lang: Catalan
word: llatí
lang: Catalan
word: romà
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 古羅馬的 /古罗马的
roman: gǔ Lúomǎ de
lang: Danish
word: romersk
lang: Danish
word: latinsk
lang: Dutch
word: Latijns
lang: Dutch
word: Romeins
lang: Esperanto
word: romia
lang: Faroese
word: rómverskur
lang: Faroese
word: latínskur
lang: Finnish
word: roomalainen
lang: Galician
word: romano
lang: German
word: römisch
lang: Interlingua
word: roman
lang: Italian
word: romano
lang: Italian
word: romana
lang: Japanese
word: 古代ローマの
roman: kodai Rōma no
lang: Latin
word: latīnus
lang: Latin
word: rōmānus
lang: Macedonian
word: римски
roman: rimski
lang: Macedonian
word: латински
roman: latinski
lang: Middle English
word: Latyn
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: romersk
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: romersk
lang: Polish
word: rzymski
lang: Polish
word: łaciński
lang: Portuguese
word: romano
lang: Romanian
word: latin
lang: Romanian
word: roman
lang: Russian
word: ри́мский
roman: rímskij
lang: Russian
word: лати́нский
roman: latínskij
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: làtīnskī
lang: Slovak
word: rímsky
lang: Slovak
word: latinský
lang: Spanish
word: romano
lang: Swahili
word: Kirumi
lang: Swedish
word: latinsk
lang: Swedish
word: romersk
lang: Tamil
word: ரோம
roman: rōma
lang: Vietnamese
word: La Mã
lang: Arabic
word: لَاتِينِيّ
roman: lātīniyy
lang: Arabic
word: الرُّومِيَّة
roman: ar-rūmiyya
lang: Armenian
word: լատինական
roman: latinakan
lang: Catalan
word: llatí
lang: Catalan
word: llatina
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 拉丁的
roman: Lādīng de
lang: Danish
word: latinsk
lang: Dutch
word: Latijns
lang: Esperanto
word: latia
lang: Finnish
word: latinalainen
lang: Galician
word: latino
lang: German
word: latinisch
lang: Interlingua
word: latin
lang: Italian
word: latino
lang: Italian
word: latina
lang: Japanese
word: ラテンの
roman: Raten no
lang: Latin
word: latīnus
lang: Macedonian
word: латински
roman: latinski
lang: Polish
word: latyński
lang: Portuguese
word: latino
lang: Spanish
word: latino
lang: Swedish
word: latinsk
lang: Arabic
word: رُّومِيَّة
roman: rrūmiyya
lang: Dutch
word: Romaan
lang: Finnish
word: romaanisen kielen puhuja
lang: German
word: Romane
lang: Korean
word: 이탈리아어파
roman: itallia'eopa
lang: Macedonian
word: Латин
lang: Macedonian
word: Латинка
roman: Latinka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: Làtīn
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: Làtīnka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: Latínjanin
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: Latínjānka
lang: Telugu
word: లాటిను
roman: lāṭinu