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Latin /latˈin/

adjective
  1. Relating to ancient Latium (esp Rome) or its inhabitants, or its language, or to those languages that are descended from Latin, or to the peoples speaking them, esp (popularly) the Spanish, Portuguese and Italians or the inhabitants of Central and S America of Spanish, etc extraction
  2. Of or denoting the temperament considered characteristic of the Latin peoples, passionate, excitable, volatile
  3. Written or spoken in Latin
  4. Roman Catholic
noun
  1. An inhabitant of ancient Latium
  2. The language of ancient Latium, and esp of Rome
  3. A person belonging to a Latin people
  4. A Roman Catholic
ORIGIN: L Latīnus belonging to Latium, the district round Rome

Latian /lāˈshyən or -shən/ adjective

Of Latium

Latina noun see Latino below

Latˈinate adjective

  1. Imitating Latin style
  2. (of vocabulary) borrowed from Latin

Latˈiner noun (obsolete)

  1. Someone who knows Latin
  2. An interpreter

Latˈinism noun

  1. A Latin idiom
  2. The use or inclination towards use of Latin idioms, words or ways

Latˈinist noun

A person skilled in Latin

Latinˈity noun

  1. The (easy) use of Latin
  2. The quality of one's Latin

Latinīzāˈtion or Latinīsāˈtion noun

Latˈinize or Latˈinise transitive verb

To turn into or make Latin or like Latin

intransitive verb

To use Latin idioms or derivatives

Latˈinīzer or Latˈinīser noun

Latino /la-tēˈnō/ or (fem) Latiˈna noun and adjective

(a person) of Latin-American descent, esp in N America

Latin America noun

Those parts of America where Spanish, Portuguese and French are the official languages, with the exception of French-speaking Canada

Latin American adjective and noun

Latin Church noun

The Roman Catholic Church

Latin cross noun

An upright cross with the lowest limb longest

Latin Empire noun

That portion of the Byzantine Empire seized in 1204 by the Crusaders (French and Venetian), and overthrown by the Greeks in 1261

Latin Kingdom noun

The Christian kingdom of Jerusalem ruled by French or Latin kings, and lasting from 1099 to 1187

Latin Quarter noun

The educational and students' quarter of Paris around the Sorbonne (where Latin was spoken in the Middle Ages; Fr quartier latin), famous for its unconventional way of life

Latin square noun (statistics)

A matrix in which no figure occurs more than once in the same row or column

Latin Union noun

A monetary union (1865–1926) of France, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland, with Greece from 1868

classical Latin

The Latin of the writers who flourished from about 75BC to about 200AD

dog Latin see under dog1

Late Latin

The Latin written by authors between 200AD and c.600

Low Latin

Medieval, or Late and Medieval, Latin

Middle or Medieval Latin

The Latin of the Middle Ages between 600 and 1500

New or Modern Latin

Latin as written between 1500 and the present time, mostly used as a scientific medium

Silver Latin see under silver

thieves' Latin

Thieves' cant

Vulgar Latin

Colloquial Latin, esp that of the period under the emperors

vulgar /vulˈgər/

adjective
  1. Unrefined
  2. (of language, etc) coarse
  3. Lacking in taste, manners, delicacy, etc
  4. Spiritually paltry, ignoble, debased, or pretentious
  5. Relating to the common people
  6. Plebeian
  7. Vernacular
  8. Public
  9. Common, usual, customary
  10. Common to all
  11. Prevalent
  12. Commonplace
noun
  1. The common people
  2. One of the unrefined, of the uneducated, or of those not in good society
  3. The common language of a country, the vernacular
  4. A class of inferior persons (obsolete)
ORIGIN: L vulgāris, from vulgus the people

vulgāˈrian noun

  1. A vulgar person
  2. A rich unrefined person
adjective

Of or relating to a vulgarian

vulˈgarism noun

  1. A vulgar phrase
  2. Coarseness
  3. An instance of this

vulgarity /-garˈ/ noun

vulgarizāˈtion or vulgarisāˈtion noun

vulˈgarize or vulˈgarise transitive verb

  1. To make common or ordinary
  2. To popularize (and therefore spoil to some extent)
  3. To make unrefined or coarse

vulˈgarly adverb

Vulgar era noun

The Christian era

vulgar fraction noun

A fraction written in the usual way (one number above another, separated by a line), opp to decimal fraction

Vulgar Latin noun

Any of the spoken varieties of Latin in the Common Era (as opposed to literary Classical Latin) esp when considered as the precursors of the Romance languages

vulgar tongue noun

The vernacular

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