English

Latin time

From Latin + time, in the style of a time zone name.

A compound of Latin + time

Latin Latium ‘the region around Rome’

Latin latīnus

Old French latin ‘Latin language’

Middle English Latyn

English Latin

Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- ‘to divide’

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Proto-Germanic *tīmô ‘division, period; time’

Proto-West Germanic *tīmō

Old English tīma ‘time, period’

Middle English tyme

English time

Today it means

noun A stereotype of fashionable lateness associated with Latino culture.

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

Etymograph / Latin time