Meaning of Latin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The language of the ancient Romans, other Latins and of the Roman Catholic church, especially Classical Latin.
   uncountable
2. Of or relating to Latin: the language spoken in ancient Rome and other cities of Latium
3. A person native to ancient Rome or its Empire.
   historical
4. A surname from Middle English.
5. Of or relating to the script of the language spoken in ancient Rome and many modern alphabets
6. The Latin alphabet or writing system.
   countable, uncountable
7. 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.
   historical
8. Of or relating to ancient Rome or its Empire
9. The nonsense placeholder text (often based on real Latin) used in greeking.
   countable, uncountable
10. A person from one of the modern European countries (including Italy, Spain etc.) whose language is descended from Latin.
11. Of or relating to Latium (modern Lazio), the region around Rome
12. A person from Latin America.
13. Of or relating to the customs and people descended from the ancient Romans and their Empire
14. A person adhering to Roman Catholic practice.

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Examples

“Supper being over, the lawyer took his leave, and the doctor began to ſound the learned clerk reſpecting his proficiency in the dead languages. "As to dead languages," replied the ſchoolmafter, "I was once a vaſt pretty ſcholar indeed, but want of exercise has made me main ſlack—I can't get over my ground as I uſed to do. Then as to the t'other dead fellow, I could never greek it at all, that's flat. And, Lord bleſs you! my Latin is of no more uſe to me here than—than—" Here he ſtuck for want of a ſimile; when Mr. Le Dupe helped him out by ſaying, "that it is to a young man at college, where it is conſidered a pedantic inſult, and an unpardonable bore, to utter a Latin ſentence."”

“To Hall [Robert A. Hall, Jr.], the development would be something as follows: Latin > Proto-Romance (dated late Republic and Early Empire) > Proto-Continental Romance > Proto-Italo-Western Romance (to which Hall would limit the term "Vulgar Latin") > Proto-Western Romance > Proto-Gallo Romance, etc. Each of these main divisions splits off into further languages: Latin > Classical Latin; Proto-Romance > Proto-Southern Romance > Sardinian, Lucianian, Sicilian; Proto-Continental Romance > Proto-Eastern Romance > Proto-Balkan Romance, etc.”

“When the Christian Church rose in stature in the Dark Ages, its adoption of Latin as the official language assured its eternal life.”

“Like Copernicus and Galileo, Johannes Kepler was a renowned astronomer who wrote in Latin.”

“I call them otroverts—from otro, the Spanish word for “other,” and vertere, Latin for “to turn.” Otroverts are people who turn in a different direction: not inward like introverts, not outward like extroverts, but elsewhere. They turn toward something else entirely—independence, clarity, and observation.”

“This appears incontestably from the manner in which the Latins wrote Greek words and names[…]”

“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.”

“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.”

“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[…]”

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