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lætic, a. Hist.|ˈliːtɪk|
[ad. late L. lætic-us, f. lætus (see below); the word is usually viewed as adopted from Teut. *læ̂to-z (see læt).]
Of or pertaining to the læti, a class of non-Roman cultivators under the later Roman empire, who occupied lands for which they paid tribute.
1839Keightley Hist. Eng. I. 129 At a subsequent period [in Roman history] lands denominated Lætic were given in the interior of the provinces to larger bodies of the Barbarians on similar condition. 1874Stubbs Const. Hist. I. vi. 161 As the freemen were mingled more or less with lætic or native races. 1892C. M. Andrews Old Eng. Manor Introd. 39 Portions of the Teutonic laetic organization may have lingered in Kent. |