Latin

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “Africa was the natural leader because there the number of Christians who were of Roman origin and Latin speech was probably far greater than in so cosmopolitan a city as Rome.”

2. sıfat Of or relating to the script of the language spoken in ancient Rome and many modern alphabets.

   “The Serbo-Croatian incunabula printed in Latin letters are indubitably the products of a very modest establishment.”

3. sıfat Of or relating to ancient Rome or its Empire.

   “The earliest Latin culture of Ireland was heavily indebted to that of Britain[…]”

4. sıfat Of or relating to Latium (modern Lazio), the region around Rome.

   “From the Campagna and the Latin hills, the flame of rebellion spread to Antium and Terracina, and to the most remote allies of the Romans, the cities of the Campanian plains.”

5. sıfat Of or relating to the customs and people descended from the ancient Romans and their Empire.

   “Major for joy, Minor for sadness, is apparently a significance which the German nations read into these scales; while the Semitic, Latin, and Slavic nations do not share this conception.”

6. sıfat Of or from Latin America or of Latin American culture.

   “As such, today's Latin music is a synthesis of European, African, and the few indigenous elements that remain.”

7. sıfat Roman Catholic; of or pertaining to the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.

   “The Latin bishop now took the Greek bishop by the hand and conducted him to his throne[…]”

8. özel isim The language of the ancient Romans, other Latins and of the Roman Catholic church, especially Classical Latin.

   “When the Christian Church rose in stature in the Dark Ages, its adoption of Latin as the official language assured its eternal life.”

9. özel isim The Latin alphabet or writing system.
10. özel isim The nonsense placeholder text (often based on real Latin) used in greeking.
11. isim A person native to ancient Rome or its Empire.

    “This appears incontestably from the manner in which the Latins wrote Greek words and names[…]”

12. isim A member of an Italic tribe that included the early inhabitants of the city of Rome, and from about 1000 BC inhabited the region known as Old Latium.
13. isim A person from one of the modern European countries (including Italy, Spain etc.) whose language is descended from Latin.

    “No; the test of the contrast between modern Latins and modern Teutons is exactly like the test of the contrast between modern Latins and ancient Latins.”

14. isim A person from Latin America.

    “In the use of patent medicine the average Latin resembles the American of fifty years ago, who generally had a bottle of some concoction on which he depended whenever he felt out of sorts.”

15. isim A person adhering to Roman Catholic practice.

    “The modern Latins have been in the habit of blaming the Greek and other Eastern Liturgies for not consecrating by the recital of OUR SAVIOUR'S words of Institution[…]”

16. özel isim A surname from Middle English.