Definitions for Latin

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Latin Lat·in

Spelling: [lat-n]

IPA: /ˈlæt n/

Latin is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in Latin (ailnt).

Definitions for Latin

noun

1. an Italic language spoken in ancient Rome, fixed in the 2nd or 1st century b.c., and established as the official language of the Roman Empire. Abbreviation: L.
2. one of the forms of literary Latin, as Medieval Latin, Late Latin, Biblical Latin, or Liturgical Latin, or of nonclassical Latin, as Vulgar Latin.
3. a native or inhabitant of Latium; an ancient Roman.
4. a member of any of the Latin peoples, or those speaking chiefly Romance languages, especially a native of or émigré from Latin America.
5. a member of the Latin Church; a Roman Catholic, as distinguished from a member of the Greek Church.

adjective

1. denoting or pertaining to those peoples, as the Italians, French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc., using languages derived from Latin, especially the peoples of Central and South America:
2. of or relating to the Latin Church.
3. of or relating to Latium, its inhabitants, or their language.
4. of or relating to the Latin alphabet.

Origin of Latin

before 950; Middle English, Old English Latin Latīnus. See Latium, -ine¹

Examples for Latin

Panamanians are by far the biggest beer consumers in Latin America, but not when it comes to the good stuff.

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Most Latin Americans celebrated the rapprochement between the United States and Cuba.

In fact, beer prices in Panama are about 36 percent lower than anywhere else in Latin America.

Similar stories plague many parts of Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Asia.

Of course, she had read her Trilby, and other works dealing with the Latin Quarter.

It dates to 1740s Britain and of course was written originally in Latin (“Adeste Fideles”).

The questions in the examinations were put in Latin, and answered in Italian.

He propped himself against a wall and reproved his tormentors in Latin.

It was Latin, she said, and it meant "the chiefest among sinners."

I must keep on steadily with Ted's Latin this fall and winter.