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I. (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:
A person who is a member of those peoples whose languages derived from Latin
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Latin" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Sense 3
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)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to the ancient Latins or the Latin language
Example:
Latin verb conjugations
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Latin (any dialect of the language of ancient Rome)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to the ancient region of Latium
Example:
Latin towns
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Latium (an ancient region of west central Italy (southeast of Rome) on the Tyrrhenian Sea)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Relating to languages derived from Latin
Example:
Romance languages
Synonyms:
Latin; Romance
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Romance (the group of languages derived from Latin)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Relating to people or countries speaking Romance languages
Example:
Latin America
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Romance (relating to languages derived from Latin)
Context examples:
Latin for "in glass"; in a laboratory dish or test tube; an artificial environment.
(In vitro, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Smoke from Australia entered Latin America through Chile because air circulation in the Southern Hemisphere always goes from west to east.
(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)
It also shows two previously imaged streams extending from either end of the nebula’s long axis, ending in bright ansae (Latin for “handles”).
(The Strange Structures of the Saturn Nebula, ESO)
The disease is transmitted by triatomine bugs ‒ blood-sucking insects known by several different names in Latin America (chinche, chirimacha and barbero, among others).
(Açaí fruit can transmit Chagas disease, SciDev.Net)
It is well they don’t have days of fog in the Latin countries—the countries of assassination.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The PC in the acronym PC-SPES stands for Prostate Cancer, while SPES is the Latin word for hope.
(PC-SPES, NCI Thesaurus)
Individuals who rarely burn and tan heavily with moderate sun exposures, especially individuals of Asian, American Indian, Mediterranean and Latin American descent.
(Fitzpatrick Skin Type IV, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
It affects children, almost exclusively in Latin America and Asia.
(Hydroa Vacciniforme-Like Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)
It is more common in developed nations, but a few countries in Latin America, including Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay are now approaching the levels of incidence seen in the developed world.
(Pesticides blamed for rise in colon cancer deaths, SciDev.Net)
A Latin abbreviation for “nothing by mouth.”
(NPO, NCI Dictionary)
