latr
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *lataz, whence also Old English læt (“slow, sluggish, late”), Old High German laz (“slow, lazy”).
Adjective edit
latr (comparative latari, superlative latastr)
Derived terms edit
- latr sækir latan heim (compare Icelandic líkur sækir líkan heim (“birds of a feather flock together”) and English like attracts like)
- ólatr (“diligent”)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “latr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press