LATIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Latin mean? 

• LATIN (noun)
  The noun LATIN has 3 senses:

1. any dialect of the language of ancient Rome

2. an inhabitant of ancient Latium

3. a person who is a member of those peoples whose languages derived from Latin

  Familiarity information: LATIN used as a noun is uncommon.

• LATIN (adjective)
  The adjective LATIN has 4 senses:

1. of or relating to the ancient Latins or the Latin language

2. relating to people or countries speaking Romance languages

3. relating to languages derived from Latin

4. of or relating to the ancient region of Latium

  Familiarity information: LATIN used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LATIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any dialect of the language of ancient Rome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Latin" is a kind of...):

Italic; Italic language (a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative)

Domain member category:

res gestae (things done)

hybrid; loan-blend; loanblend (a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., 'monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root))

nihil ((Latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ))

annum ((Latin) year)

de novo (from the beginning)

A.M.; ante meridiem (before noon (in Latin, 'ante' means before, and 'meridiem' is the accusative form of 'meridies', meaning midday))

P.M.; post meridiem (between noon and midnight)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Latin"):

Old Latin (the oldest recorded Latin (dating back at early as the 6th century B.C.))

classical Latin (the language of educated people in ancient Rome)

Low Latin (any dialect of Latin other than classical Latin)

Biblical Latin; Late Latin (the form of Latin written between the 3rd and 8th centuries)

Neo-Latin; New Latin (Latin since the Renaissance; used for scientific nomenclature)

Latinian language; Romance; Romance language (the group of languages derived from Latin)

Derivation:

Latinist (a specialist in the Latin language)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An inhabitant of ancient Latium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Latin" is a kind of...):

denizen; dweller; habitant; indweller; inhabitant (a person who inhabits a particular place)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A person who is a member of those peoples whose languages derived from Latin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Latin" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

• LATIN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the ancient Latins or the Latin language

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Latin verb conjugations

Pertainym:

Latin (any dialect of the language of ancient Rome)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to people or countries speaking Romance languages

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Latin America

Pertainym:

Romance (relating to languages derived from Latin)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Relating to languages derived from Latin

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Latin; Romance

Context example:

Romance languages

Pertainym:

Romance (the group of languages derived from Latin)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Of or relating to the ancient region of Latium

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Latin towns

Pertainym:

Latium (an ancient region of west central Italy (southeast of Rome) on the Tyrrhenian Sea)

 Context examples 

I was saying that I hoped you wouldn't be fool enough to tackle Latin.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The letter A is the first letter in the Latin alphabet.

(A, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“Would you like to be taught Latin?” I said briskly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The plant is a particularly important commercial crop in Latin America and Asia.

(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)

In the gloomier scenarios discussed in the report, sea levels could rise 40 centimeters by 2050, causing losses of up to $1.2 billion in the 22 largest coastal cities in Latin America.

(Brazil's coastal cities more vulnerable to climate change, Agência Brasil)

Models of forest age in 2008 show that 17 percent of the forest area in lowland Latin America consists of young second-growth forest (1-20 years) and 11 percent consists of intermediate age forest (20-60 years).

(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)

The worldwide standard for the code numbers used by computers to represent all the uppercase and lowercase Latin letters, numbers, punctuation, and other symbols.

(ASCII, NCI Thesaurus)

A Latin abbreviation for "nothing by mouth".

(Nothing by Mouth, NCI Dictionary)

It is common in Latin America but not in the United States.

(Chagas Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

I, the Socman, am shorn of my lands that you may snivel Latin and eat bread for which you never did hand's turn.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)