Adjective
latīnus (feminine latīna, neuter latīnum, adverb latīnē); first/second-declension adjective
- Alternative letter-case form of Latīnus
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)
- French: Latin
- → German: Latein
- → Greek: λατινικά (latiniká)
- → Hindi: लातिनी (lātinī)
- → Ingush: Латиний (Latinii)
- → Old Irish: Laiten
- Italian: Latino
- → Kashubian: Łacyńsczi
- Ladin: Ladino
- Ladino: לאטין
- → 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