latus
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin latus (“side”), from Proto-Italic *tlātos, from Proto-Indo-European *tl̥h₂tós, from the root *telh₂-.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
latus (plural latera)
Related terms edit
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology 1 edit
Earlier *tlātus, from Proto-Italic *tlātos, from Proto-Indo-European *tl̥h₂tós, from the root *telh₂-.
Compare Ancient Greek τλάντος (tlántos, “bearing, suffering”), τολμέω (tolméō, “to carry, bear”), τελαμών (telamṓn, “broad strap for bearing something”), Ἄτλας (Átlas, “the 'Bearer' of Heaven”), Lithuanian tiltas (“bridge”), Sanskrit तुला (tulā, “balance”), तुलयति (tulayati, “lifts up, weighs”), Latin tollō (“to bear, support”), tulī (“I bore”), tolerō (“bear, endure”), tellūs (“bearing earth”), Old English þolian (“to endure”) (English thole), Old Armenian թողում (tʿołum, “I allow”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlaː.tus/, [ˈɫ̪äːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈla.tus/, [ˈläːt̪us]
Participle edit
lātus (feminine lāta, neuter lātum); first/second-declension participle
- perfect passive participle of ferō:
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | lātus | lāta | lātum | lātī | lātae | lāta | |
Genitive | lātī | lātae | lātī | lātōrum | lātārum | lātōrum | |
Dative | lātō | lātō | lātīs | ||||
Accusative | lātum | lātam | lātum | lātōs | lātās | lāta | |
Ablative | lātō | lātā | lātō | lātīs | |||
Vocative | lāte | lāta | lātum | lātī | lātae | lāta |
Etymology 2 edit
From earlier *stlātus, from Proto-Italic *stlātos, from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to stretch out, extend, spread”) or *stelh₃- (“broad”). Also compare stlatta.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlaː.tus/, [ˈɫ̪äːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈla.tus/, [ˈläːt̪us]
Adjective edit
lātus (feminine lāta, neuter lātum, comparative lātior, superlative lātissimus, adverb lātē); first/second-declension adjective
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | lātus | lāta | lātum | lātī | lātae | lāta | |
Genitive | lātī | lātae | lātī | lātōrum | lātārum | lātōrum | |
Dative | lātō | lātō | lātīs | ||||
Accusative | lātum | lātam | lātum | lātōs | lātās | lāta | |
Ablative | lātō | lātā | lātō | lātīs | |||
Vocative | lāte | lāta | lātum | lātī | lātae | lāta |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Etymology 3 edit
Uncertain. Some indicate Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”) or *stelh₃- (“broad”) (in which case later would be its masculine form).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈla.tus/, [ˈɫ̪ät̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈla.tus/, [ˈläːt̪us]
Noun edit
latus n (genitive lateris); third declension
- (military) side, flank
- Synonym: cornu
- side (e.g., of a shape)
- Caesar, de Bello Gallico VII, 24:
- Duabus portis ab utroque latere turrium
- from two gates on each sides of the turrets
- Duabus portis ab utroque latere turrium
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | latus | latera |
Genitive | lateris | laterum |
Dative | laterī | lateribus |
Accusative | latus | latera |
Ablative | latere | lateribus |
Vocative | latus | latera |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “latus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “latus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- latus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- latus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have good lungs: bonis lateribus esse
- to place the cavalry on the wings: equites ad latera disponere (B. G. 6. 8)
- to fall upon the enemy's flank: in latus hostium incurrere
- (ambiguous) to be always at a person's side: ab alicuius latere non discedere
- (ambiguous) to belong to the king's bodyguard: a latere regis esse
- to have good lungs: bonis lateribus esse
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 329-30
Latvian edit
Noun edit
latus m
- accusative plural of lats