c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) Prol. 2 As wel as suffisith to thise noble clerkes grekes thise same conclusiouns in grek..& to the Latyn folk in Latyn.

1549 Forme & Maner consecratyng Archebishoppes sig. A.ij Learned in the Latin toungue.

1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. O.iiii Caiet the Phrygian..who gaue to Latine stronds the name.

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 6 Nævius and Plautus the first Latine comedians.

1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) Pref. sig. āij I am writing of the Latin country.

1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 149 The ruins of Roman roads, of Latin castles.

1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Wks. 433 I passe ouer the other auncient fathers and doctours bothe of the Greke and Latin churches.

a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie (1648) vi. 38 The Greek Church first, and in processe of time the Latin altred this order [of public penitence].

1654 Bp. J. Taylor Real Presence 67 These words..are usually called the words of Consecration in the Latine Church.

1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 689 To have the Latin offices of our churches chanted in French.

1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 483 He wished to break up the unity of Latin Christendom.

1869 H. Vaughan Year of Preparation i. xii. 113 The Easterns deliberated among themselves without the presence of any Latin bishops.

1899 J. Stalker Christol. of Jesus ii. 47 The Greek and Latin Fathers, from Irenaeus downwards, thus employ it.

1709 Tanner 3 Oct. in Ballard MSS. IV. 53 Their Latin Small-Letter being worn out.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cviii. 998 The note tree hatte nux... And many Latyns clepeþ þis tree iugilans by anoþer name.

a1400–50 Alexander 5652 Sum in latens lare sum langage of grece.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xxxvi. f. 167^v Time consisteth of two parts..knit together by a common bound called of the Latines Nunc, that is to say now.

1615 W. Bedwell tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ i. §15 The languages of..the Syrians, Greekes, and Latines.

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxxii. 277 So that, to exercise sense (which the latines do call, sentire..) is [etc.].

1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 326 The Sabines and Latins worshipped the powers of external nature.

1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes i. 11 Latins may attain to Roman citizenship in many ways.

c1500 Song in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 117 Latens for to make.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum With all the Lattens to the sayde nombres.

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 31^v The hard pointes of Grammer..which, scholers in common scholes, by making of Latines, be groping at.

1607 Statutes in M. H. Peacock Hist. Free Gram. School Wakefield (1892) 68 Makinge of translations or Latins.

1655 W. Walker Treat. Eng. Particles Pref. sig. A3 The first Columne conteining some Englishes; the second such childish and bald Latines, as we often find them turn'd into.

1964 M. A. K. Halliday et al. Ling. Sci. i. 121 Old-fashioned Latin-based grammars.

1964 Language 40 93 The inherited tradition of Latin- and Romance-based usage.

1946 H. Jacob On Choice of Common Lang. 38 A Latin-derived constructed language.

1965 W. S. Allen Vox Latina 109 As early as the fourteenth century one finds spellings with ngn for Latin-derived words.

1942 E. Partridge Usage & Abusage 293/2 Slang tends to be ‘Saxon’ rather than ‘Latin–Greek’.

1960 Amer. Speech 35 233 Unvoicing originated mainly in Latin– Greek bilingualism.

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 682 Hic latinista, a Latyn-maker.

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 42 Though ye say well, in a latin making,..yet you being but in doute..ye gather and lay vp in memorie, no sure frute of learning..But if ye fault in translation, ye ar easelie taught, how..to amende it.

1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xv. 150 The grisettes!..so devoted to their poverty-stricken students of the Latin Quarter.

1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights I. 55 He had chosen to study the attractions of Paris from..a furnished hotel, in the Latin Quarter.

1904 J. T. Grein Dram. Crit. IV. 175 It was a generous mixture of the Latin Quarter and the various queer streets where London minor poetry flourishes.

1904 Daily Chron. 12 Dec. 4/4 They are good English garden-party hats, but they don't do for midi on an autumn day in the Latin Quarter.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. i. [Telemachus] 17 And there's your Latin quarter hat, he said.

1930 E. B. Chancellor (title) London's old Latin Quarter, being an account of Tottenham Court Road and its immediate surroundings.

1961 M. Beadle These Ruins are Inhabited (1963) iv. 54 There is good reason now for wags to call the university ‘the Latin Quarter of Oxford’.

1968 Listener 4 July 5/2 I left my friends in the Latin Quarter three weeks ago in a mood of exhausted elation.

1651 in Rec. Mass. Bay (1854) III. 242 Whosoeuer shall..cause Schollers belonginge to the Colledge or any other Latine Schoole..to spend any of theire time [etc.].

1680 in C. W. Manwaring Digest Early Connecticut Probate Rec. (1904) I. 355 I give to the lattin Schoole in Hartford £50.

1685 New Plymouth Laws (1836) 300 That every County Town shall have and maintain a Latine School.

1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 185 Elms..surround the center square, wherein are..the jail, and Latin school.

1856 B. H. Hall Coll. College Words (rev. ed.) 124 [A young man from the country] shall be examined and ‘conditioned’ in everything, and yet he shall come out far ahead of his city Latin-school class~mate.

1959 C. V. Good Dict. Educ. (ed. 2) 311/2 Latin grammar school, a secondary school, emphasizing Latin and usually Greek, the purpose of which was to prepare youths for the universities.

1966 Oxf. Compan. Amer. Hist. 462/2 Latin grammar schools, the earliest type of college preparatory schools in the colonies, were established on the English model. The first, the Boston Latin School (1635), is still one of the principal schools in that city.

1966 Oxf. Compan. Amer. Hist. 463/1 By mid 18th century Latin schools were supplanted by academies.

1687 Mass. Prov. Acts VII. 640 To meet on the Sabbath daye to exercise our duties in the Lattin Schoolhouse.

1819 Boston Selectmen's Min. 13 Oct. The Committee for the Latin schoolhouse.

1701 Boston Town Rec. VIII. 8 The building a house for the Lattin Schoolmaster.

1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 36 Such things as these go for Wit so long as they continue in Latin; but what dismally shrimp'd things would they appear, if turn'd into English? And..we shall find the advantages of Latin-Wit to be very small and slender, when it comes into the World.

1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) II. xlvi. 114 The long cross..has been called the Latin cross.

1936 A. W. Clapham Romanesque Archit. W. Europe ii. 25 Although occasionally..the transept is of the T-form of the earlier ages, more generally the arrangement takes the Latin-cross form distinctive of the full Romanesque style.

1966 Listener 9 June 835/2 It is a Latin-cross church.

1966 Listener 9 June 835/2 A Latin cross is a more obviously Christian symbol than a regular geometric figure.

1890 A. Cayley Coll. Math. Papers (1897) XIII. 55 If in each line of a square of n² compartments the same n letters a, b, c,..are arranged so that no letter occurs twice in the same column, we have what was termed by Euler ‘a Latin square.’

1925 R. A. Fisher Statist. Methods viii. 229 (heading) The Latin square.

1926 R. A. Fisher in Jrnl. Ministry of Agric. XXXIII. 510 For the purpose of variety trials, and of those simple types of manurial trial in which every possible comparison is of equal importance, the problem of designing economical and effective field experiments, reduces to two main principles..[of which the second is] the use of arrangements which eliminate a maximum fraction of the soil heterogeneity, and yet provide a valid estimate of the residual errors. Of these arrangements, by far the most efficient..is that which the writer has named the Latin Square.

1926 R. A. Fisher in Jrnl. Ministry of Agric. XXXIII. 510 The term Latin Square should only be applied to a process of randomization by which one is selected at random out of the total number of Latin Squares possible.

1935 R. A. Fisher Design Exper. v. 80 The object of arranging plots in a Latin square is to eliminate from the experimental comparisons possible differences in fertility which may exist between whole rows of plots, and between whole columns of plots, as they stand in the field.

1960 D. J. Finney Introd. Theory Exper. Design iii. 30 Four different doses of insulin..were tested on rabbits and compared in terms of the subsequent sugar contents in the rabbits' blood... There is..a strong case for using rabbits as blocks and testing each dose, on different occasions on every rabbit. In addition, however, a block constraint based upon day of injection, so that on each day every dose is tested, is a useful precaution against the possibility that laboratory conditions on a particular day may tend to affect all animals in the same direction. A 4 × 4 Latin square with columns corresponding to different rabbits and rows corresponding to different days, enables both constraints to be incorporated.

1971 Nature 13 Aug. 499/1 On drug weeks each of six rats received one of six doses, each in a different order (latin-square design).

1971 Nature 13 Aug. 499/1 An additional 6·0 mg/kg dose was administered to all subjects during the week after the completion of the latin-square.

1890 Reciprocity Treaties with Lat. Amer. (U.S. Dept. of State) 6 More than 87 per cent of our imports from Latin America are admitted free.

1900 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 17 Aug. 744/1 Everywhere in Latin America the [panama] hat is known under the name of ‘Jipijapa’ in honour of the city where its manufacture was first started.

1912 Chambers's Jrnl. June 358/2 The amount of British capital invested in the countries of Latin-America is very great.

1953 Time 19 Oct. 28/1 Latin America is in the midst of a ‘population explosion’. Its people are multiplying 2½ times as fast as the populations in the rest of the world.

1991 M. Hart in Hampson & Maule Canada among Nations After Cold War 91 From an economic perspective, the remarkable ‘apertura’ in Mexico marked a high point in this transformation of Latin America.

1914 W. Lewis in New Weekly 20 June 13/2 For everything that is rubbishy puerile in the Latin temperament machinery has come as an immense toy.

1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ii. ii. 278 Sensual and elegant though Gerald was, he detested the flashy smartness of such Latin womanizers.

1970 Times 19 Aug. 6/4 The weakness of every Yorkshireman is his Latin temperament, doubly dangerous when it has so often to be suppressed, as in..cricket.

1981 V. Glendinning Edith Sitwell iv. 61 He was extrovert, physical, unstable, and very Latin.

1989 Sunday Tel. 8 Jan. 17/1 His first language was Spanish and, not surprisingly, he describes his temperament as Latin. A proud man, he likes to be seen to succeed.

1954 M. Waldo Compl. Round-the-World Cookbk. 361 The wonderful soup-stew of the Latin countries, sancocho, is undoubtedly the [Dominican Republic] people's choice for a national dish.

1977 Time 22 Aug. 11/3 Carter's early forcefulness..drove six Latin countries..to reject U.S. military assistance rather than agree to prepare ‘report cards’ for Washington on human rights.

1994 Wall St. Jrnl. 25 Feb. c19/3 Sharp price drops of U.S. Treasurys sparked a sell-off among the government bonds of Latin nations, including Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela.

1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed iv. 30 The pianos segued smoothly into Latin rhythms.

1965 Crescendo Dec. 14/3 The arrangements are all in the Latin idiom and all of well-known tunes, getting off to a really swinging start with a L-A ‘Peter Gunn’ you must hear.

1969 Sunday Times 19 Jan. 58 This quintet..could begin a rush to what's been called Latin rock—a striking compound of bossa nova, rock and jazz.

1973 D. Robinson Rotten with Honour 8 He stood for a moment in the sunshine, snapping his fingers to a Latin beat.

1980 Musicians Only 26 Apr. 13/6 There's a Sonor drumkit, syndrums, and a whole range of Latin percussion.

1990 Ballroom Dancing Times Nov. 55/2 In the Latin championship for this age group Frank and Lily Aerts very easily retained their title.

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 86 b The..foolishe phantasticall that smelles but of learnyng..will so latine their tongues, that the simple cannot but wonder at their talke.

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Gram. sig. E2 That the Latined Reader, may be the sooner acquainted with this toong..let him marke this table following, which I set downe in Latine.

1579 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. N. Sander in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 626 He chargeth the bishop with false Latining and worse Englishing of this greeke.

1893 F. J. Furnivall in J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine p. xxiv I don't think Prata above can be a latining of Akker, acre, field.