latin
拉丁语,拉丁文,拉丁,拉丁语系
Definitions
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- : 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
- : one of the forms of literary Latin, as Medieval Latin, Late Latin, Biblical Latin, or Liturgical Latin, or of nonclassical Latin, as Vulgar Latin.
- : a native or inhabitant of Latium; an ancient Roman.
- : a member of any of the Latin peoples, or those speaking chiefly Romance languages, especially a native of or émigré from Latin America.
- : a member of the Latin Church; a Roman Catholic, as distinguished from a member of the Greek Church.
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- : 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.
- : of or relating to the Latin Church.
- : of or relating to Latium, its inhabitants, or their language.
- : of or relating to the Latin alphabet.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
It dates to 1740s Britain and of course was written originally in Latin (“Adeste Fideles”).
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Most Latin Americans celebrated the rapprochement between the United States and Cuba.
Similar stories plague many parts of Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Asia.
In fact, beer prices in Panama are about 36 percent lower than anywhere else in Latin America.
Panamanians are by far the biggest beer consumers in Latin America, but not when it comes to the good stuff.
He could go and live over in the Latin Quarter—that 's the desire of his heart—and think of nothing but old bottles.
So far we have not made great progress in securing Europe's Latin-American trade.
Every monumental inscription should be in Latin; for that being a dead language, it will always live.
Several uneducated business men are said to have written to the Dean asking the Latin for what they think of the new Budget.
The descriptions of allegorical personages in this poem are clearly imitated from similar descriptions in Latin poets.