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English Dictionary: Latin by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Latin
adj
  1. of or relating to the ancient Latins or the Latin language; "Latin verb conjugations"
  2. relating to people or countries speaking Romance languages; "Latin America"
  3. relating to languages derived from Latin; "Romance languages"
    Synonym(s): Romance, Latin
  4. of or relating to the ancient region of Latium; "Latin towns"
n
  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
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Latin \Lat"in\, v. t.
      To write or speak in Latin; to turn or render into Latin.
      [Obs.] --Fuller.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Latin \Lat"in\, a. [F., fr. L. Latinus belonging to Latium,
      Latin, fr. Latium a country of Italy, in which Rome was
      situated. Cf. {Ladin}, Lateen sail, under {Lateen}.]
      1. Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of
            Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language.
  
      2. Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by
            the Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin
            composition or idiom.
  
      {Latin Church} (Eccl. Hist.), the Western or Roman Catholic
            Church, as distinct from the Greek or Eastern Church.
  
      {Latin cross}. See Illust. 1 of {Cross}.
  
      {Latin races}, a designation sometimes loosely given to
            certain nations, esp. the French, Spanish, and Italians,
            who speak languages principally derived from Latin.
  
      {Latin Union}, an association of states, originally
            comprising France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy, which,
            in 1865, entered into a monetary agreement, providing for
            an identity in the weight and fineness of the gold and
            silver coins of those countries, and for the amounts of
            each kind of coinage by each. Greece, Servia, Roumania,
            and Spain subsequently joined the Union.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Latin \Lat"in\, n.
      1. A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman.
  
      2. The language of the ancient Romans.
  
      3. An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into
            Latin. [Obs.] --Ascham.
  
      4. (Eccl.) A member of the Roman Catholic Church.
  
      {Dog Latin}, barbarous Latin; a jargon in imitation of Latin;
            as, the log Latin of schoolboys.
  
      {Late Latin}, {Low Latin}, terms used indifferently to
            designate the latest stages of the Latin language; low
            Latin (and, perhaps, late Latin also), including the
            barbarous coinages from the French, German, and other
            languages into a Latin form made after the Latin had
            become a dead language for the people.
  
      {Law Latin}, that kind of late, or low, Latin, used in
            statutes and legal instruments; -- often barbarous.

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Latin
      the vernacular language of the ancient Romans (John 19:20).
     
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