latinus

See also: Latinus and latīņus

Latin

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /laˈtiː.nus/, [ɫ̪äˈt̪iːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /laˈti.nus/, [läˈt̪iːnus]

Adjective

latīnus (feminine latīna, neuter latīnum, adverb latīnē); first/second-declension adjective

1. Alternative letter-case form of Latīnus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	latīnus	latīna	latīnum		latīnī	latīnae	latīna
Genitive	latīnī	latīnae	latīnī		latīnōrum	latīnārum	latīnōrum
Dative	latīnō		latīnō		latīnīs
Accusative	latīnum	latīnam	latīnum		latīnōs	latīnās	latīna
Ablative	latīnō	latīnā	latīnō		latīnīs
Vocative	latīne	latīna	latīnum		latīnī	latīnae	latīna

Descendants

Descendants

• → Bashkir: латынь (latınʹ)
• → Belarusian: Лацінская (Lacinskaja)
• → Bengali: লাতিন (latin)
• → Chechen: Латинан (Latinan)
• → Chinese: 拉丁 (lādīng)
• → Dutch: Latijn
• → English: Latin, Latten, Latine (obsolete)
  • Jamaican Creole: Latn
• French: Latin
• → German: Latein
• → Greek: λατινικά (latiniká)
• → Hindi: लातिनी (lātinī)
• → Ingush: Латиний (Latinii)
• → Old Irish: Laiten
  • Irish: Laidin
  • Manx: Ladjyn
  • Scottish Gaelic: Laideann
• Italian: Latino
• → Kashubian: Łacyńsczi
• Ladin: Ladino
• Ladino: לאטין
  • Ladino: לאדינו
• → Lak: Латӏин (Latʼin)
• → Lithuanian: Lotynų
• → Lezgi: Латин (Latin)
• → Moksha: Латинонь (Laťinoń)
• → Polish: Łacina
• Portuguese: Latim
• → Punjabi: ਲਾਤੀਨੀ (lātīnī)
• Romanian: Latin
• → Russian: Латинский (Latinskij)
• Spanish: Latín
• → Tamil: இலத்தீன் (ilattīṉ)
• → Thai: ละติน (lá-dtin)
• → Urdu: لاطینی (lātenī)
• → Welsh: Lladin

References

• latinus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• latinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the expression is not in accordance with Latin usage: aliquid a consuetudine sermonis latini abhorret, alienum est
    
  • pure, correct Latin: incorrupta latini sermonis integritas (Brut. 35. 132)
    
  • good Latin: sermo latinus (opp. sermo parum latinus) (cf. sect. VII. 2., note For the use of adverbs...)
    
  • to translate from Greek into Latin: aliquid e graeco in latinum (sermonem) convertere, vertere, transferre
    
  • what follows has been translated into Latin from Plato's Phaedo: ex Platonis Phaedone haec in latinum conversa sunt
    
  • (ambiguous) to render something into Latin: aliquid (graeca) latine reddere or sermone latino interpretari
    
  • (ambiguous) Roman literature: litterae latinae
    
  • (ambiguous) acquainted with the Latin language: latinis litteris or latine doctus
    
  • (ambiguous) a good Latin scholar: bene latine doctus or sciens
    
  • (ambiguous) to write expositions of philosophy in Latin: philosophiam latinis litteris illustrare (Acad. 1. 1. 3)
    
  • (ambiguous) (1) to speak Latin, (2) to speak good Latin (also bene latine), (3) to express oneself clearly: latine loqui (Brut. 45. 166)
    
  • (ambiguous) to know Latin: latinam linguam scire or didicisse
    
  • (ambiguous) to know Latin: latine scire
    
  • (ambiguous) to write treatises in Latin: latine commentari
    
  • (ambiguous) to render something into Latin: aliquid (graeca) latine reddere or sermone latino interpretari
    
  • (ambiguous) to write good Latin: latine scribere (Opt. Gen. Or. 2. 4)
    
  • (ambiguous) to introduce a new word into the Latin language: inducere novum verbum in latinam linguam
    
• “latinus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “latinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “latinus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray