Etymograph

English

Latin

Latin comes from Old French latin ‘Latin language’, and goes back to Latin Latium ‘the region around Rome’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CELatium‘the region around Rome’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElatīnus
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400latin‘Latin language’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Latyn
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1901Latin

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CELatium‘the region around Rome’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElatīnus
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400latin‘Latin language’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Latyn
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1901Latin

Earliest quotation: 1901, John Hackett, A History of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus: “The Latin bishop now took the Greek bishop by…”

Linked words

through Latin lātus ‘wide’

le, collateral, lateral, latitude, dilate, dilatation, 11 more

through Latin latīnus

ladino, 3 more

Another origin of Latin

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CELat(ium)
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CELatinus‘belonging to Latium’
  3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*ladinumreconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150Lǣden
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Latin
  6. Englishtodaysame form

Later influenced in form by the Latin word.

Another origin of Latin

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Latyn
  2. EnglishtodayLatin

Today it means

adj Of or relating to Latin: the language spoken in ancient Rome and other cities of Latium.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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