Latin
Definitions
- The language of the ancient Romans, other Latins and of the Roman Catholic church, especially Classical Latin.
- Of or relating to Latin: the language spoken in ancient Rome and other cities of Latium
- A person native to ancient Rome or its Empire.
- A surname from Middle English.
- Of or relating to the script of the language spoken in ancient Rome and many modern alphabets
- The Latin alphabet or writing system.
- 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.
- Of or relating to ancient Rome or its Empire
- The nonsense placeholder text (often based on real Latin) used in greeking.
- A person from one of the modern European countries (including Italy, Spain etc.) whose language is descended from Latin.
- Of or relating to Latium (modern Lazio), the region around Rome
- A person from Latin America.
- Of or relating to the customs and people descended from the ancient Romans and their Empire
- A person adhering to Roman Catholic practice.
Equivalents
Françaislatin
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[…]”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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