Latin

Meaning

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

Etymology / origin

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.

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