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 Lat·in /ˈlætṇ/
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 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.]
 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.

 Lat·in a.
 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.

 Lat·in, v. t. To write or speak in Latin; to turn or render into Latin. [Obs.]
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 Latin
      adj 1: of or relating to the ancient Latins or the Latin language;
             "Latin verb conjugations"
      2: having or resembling the psychology or temper characteristic
         of people of Latin America; "very Latin in temperament";
         "a Latin disdain"; "his hot Latin blood"
      3: relating to people or countries speaking Romance languages;
         "Latin America"
      4: relating to languages derived from Latin; "Romance
         languages" [syn: Romance]
      5: 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

 Latin
    the vernacular language of the ancient Romans (John 19:20).