Latin

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Latin \Lat"in\, n.
     1. A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman.
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     2. The language of the ancient Romans.
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     3. An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into
        Latin. [Obs.] --Ascham.
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     4. (Eccl.) A member of the Roman Catholic Church.
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     {Dog Latin}, barbarous Latin; a jargon in imitation of Latin;
        as, the log Latin of schoolboys.
  
     {Late Latin}, {Low Latin}, terms used indifferently to
        designate the latest stages of the Latin language; low
        Latin (and, perhaps, late Latin also), including the
        barbarous coinages from the French, German, and other
        languages into a Latin form made after the Latin had
        become a dead language for the people.
  
     {Law Latin}, that kind of late, or low, Latin, used in
        statutes and legal instruments; -- often barbarous.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Latin \Lat"in\, a. [F., fr. L. Latinus belonging to Latium,
     Latin, fr. Latium a country of Italy, in which Rome was
     situated. Cf. {Ladin}, Lateen sail, under {Lateen}.]
     1. Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of
        Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language.
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     2. Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by
        the Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin
        composition or idiom.
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     {Latin Church} (Eccl. Hist.), the Western or Roman Catholic
        Church, as distinct from the Greek or Eastern Church.
  
     {Latin cross}. See Illust. 1 of {Cross}.
  
     {Latin races}, a designation sometimes loosely given to
        certain nations, esp. the French, Spanish, and Italians,
        who speak languages principally derived from Latin.
  
     {Latin Union}, an association of states, originally
        comprising France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy, which,
        in 1865, entered into a monetary agreement, providing for
        an identity in the weight and fineness of the gold and
        silver coins of those countries, and for the amounts of
        each kind of coinage by each. Greece, Servia, Roumania,
        and Spain subsequently joined the Union.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Latin \Lat"in\, v. t.
     To write or speak in Latin; to turn or render into Latin.
     [Obs.] --Fuller.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Latin
       adj 1: of or relating to the ancient Latins or the Latin language;
              "Latin verb conjugations"
       2: having or resembling the psychology or temper characteristic
          of people of Latin America; "very Latin in temperament";
          "a Latin disdain"; "his hot Latin blood"
       3: relating to people or countries speaking Romance languages;
          "Latin America"
       4: relating to languages derived from Latin; "Romance
          languages" [syn: {Romance}]
       5: of or relating to the ancient region of Latium; "Latin
          towns"
       n 1: any dialect of the language of ancient Rome
       2: an inhabitant of ancient Latium
       3: a person who is a member of those peoples whose languages
          derived from Latin

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Latin
     the vernacular language of the ancient Romans (John 19:20).