Etymograph

English

lateen

Lateen comes from Middle French latin ‘Latin language’, and goes back to Latin latīnus.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElatīnus
  2. Old Frenchc. 842–1400latin‘Latin language’
  3. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600same form‘Latin language’
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presentsame formas latine
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1853lateen

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElatīnus
  2. Old Frenchc. 842–1400latin‘Latin language’
  3. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600same form‘Latin language’
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presentsame formas latine
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1853lateen

Earliest quotation: 1853, Henry Coleman Folkard, The Sailing Boat: A Description of English and Foreign Boats: “The shape of the lateen sail is triangular, or…”

Linked words

through Latin latīnus

ladino, 2 more

Today it means

noun A triangular fore-and-aft sail set on a boom in such way that the tack is attached to the hull of the vessel and the free end of the boom lifts the sail.

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

Etymograph / Latin latīnus / lateen

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