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Definitions for Latin

[1] an Italic language spoken in ancient Rome, fixed in the 2nd or 1st century b.c., and established as the official language of the Roman Empire. Abbreviation : L
[2] one of the forms of literary Latin, as Medieval Latin, Late Latin, Biblical Latin, or Liturgical Latin, or of nonclassical Latin, as Vulgar Latin.
[3] a native or inhabitant of Latium; an ancient Roman.
[4] a member of any of the Latin peoples, or those speaking chiefly Romance languages, especially a native of or émigré from Latin America.
[5] a member of the Latin Church; a Roman Catholic, as distinguished from a member of the Greek Church.
[6] denoting or pertaining to those peoples, as the Italians, French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc., using languages derived from Latin, especially the peoples of Central and South America: a meeting of the Latin republics.
[7] of or relating to the Latin Church.
[8] of or relating to Latium, its inhabitants, or their language.
[9] of or relating to the Latin alphabet.
[10] the language of ancient Rome and the Roman Empire and of the educated in medieval Europe, which achieved its classical form during the 1st century bc. Having originally been the language of Latium, belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European family, it later formed the basis of the Romance group See Late Latin, Low Latin, Medieval Latin, New Latin, Old Latin See also Romance
[11] a member of any of those peoples whose languages are derived from Latin
[12] an inhabitant of ancient Latium
[13] of or relating to the Latin language, the ancient Latins, or Latium
[14] characteristic of or relating to those peoples in Europe and Latin America whose languages are derived from Latin
[15] of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church
[16] denoting or relating to the Roman alphabet

Words related to Latin

classic, humanistic, academic, attic, Hellenic, Doric, Greek, roman, scholastic, Ionic, Grecian, bookish, canonical, Augustan, Homeric, Virgilian, belletristic, insular, Catalan, Continental

Origin of Latin

before 950; Middle English, Old English < Latin Latīnus. See Latium, -ine1

Other words from Latin

an·ti-Lat·in , adjective
non-Lat·in , adjective, noun
pre-Lat·in , adjective, noun
pro-Lat·in , adjective
qua·si-Lat·in , adjective

Word origin for Latin

Old English latin and læden Latin, language, from Latin Latīnus of Latium

Synonyms for Latin

classic, humanistic, Doric, Grecian, Greek, Hellenic, Ionic, academic, attic, roman, scholastic, Augustan, Homeric, Virgilian, belletristic, bookish, canonic, canonical, classicistic