Latin - definition, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈlætn|
Brit.  |ˈlætɪn|

noun

- any dialect of the language of ancient Rome (syn: latin)
- an inhabitant of ancient Latium (syn: latin)
- a person who is a member of those peoples whose languages derived from Latin (syn: latin)

adjective

- of or relating to the ancient Latins or the Latin language (syn: latin)
Latin verb conjugations
- relating to people or countries speaking Romance languages (syn: latin)
Latin America
- relating to languages derived from Latin (syn: latin, romance)
- of or relating to the ancient region of Latium (syn: latin)
Latin towns

Extra examples

Latin America

Latin music

Latin verb conjugations

Latin towns

The word “amiable” traces back to the Latin word for “friend.”

Latin is the ancestor of Italian and French.

Priests chanted the Catholic Mass in Latin.

The Italian language is one of Latin's descendants.

...the divarication of the various dialects of Latin that occurred with the decline of the Roman Empire...

...during the Renaissance most men of science and the arts were fain to express their noblest thoughts in Latin, the lingua franca of the learned...

Ricky Martin, sovereign of Latin pop culture, is back.

Beside Latin our language seems to be quite easier.

His sermons were all bolstered up with Greek and Latin.

These words come from Latin.

A number of developing countries in Latin America followed the opposite path.

Word forms

noun
singular: Latin
plural: Latins
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