LATIN

Definitions

1. 1. A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman.
2. 2. The language of the ancient Romans.
3. 3. An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin. [Obs.] Ascham.
4. 4. 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.