See also: Latus

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin latus (side), from Proto-Italic *tlātos, from Proto-Indo-European *tl̥h₂tós, from the root *telh₂-.

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Noun edit

latus (plural latera)

  1. (medicine) Flank.

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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).

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Participle edit

lātus (feminine lāta, neuter lātum); first/second-declension participle

  1. perfect passive participle of ferō:
    1. borne, carried, having been carried
    2. suffered, endured, having been suffered
    3. reported, having been reported
Declension edit

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
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.

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Adjective edit

lātus (feminine lāta, neuter lātum, comparative lātior, superlative lātissimus, adverb lātē); first/second-declension adjective

  1. wide, broad
  2. spacious, extensive
  3. wide-ranging
    Synonyms: capāx, spatiōsus
    • 43 BCEc. 17 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.545-546:
      vagantur incūstōdītae lāta per arva bovēs
      cattle wander unguarded through spacious fields
Declension edit

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
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
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Descendants edit
  • Aromanian: lat
  • Catalan: lat
  • Franco-Provençal:
  • French:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: lado
  • Italian: lato
  • Portuguese: lato
  • Romanian: lat
  • Spanish: lato
  • Walloon: lêye

Etymology 3 edit

Uncertain. Some indicate Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (flat) or *stelh₃- (broad) (in which case later would be its masculine form).

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Noun edit

latus n (genitive lateris); third declension

  1. (military) side, flank
    Synonym: cornu
  2. 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
Declension edit

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative latus latera
Genitive lateris laterum
Dative laterī lateribus
Accusative latus latera
Ablative latere lateribus
Vocative latus latera
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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
  • 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

  1. accusative plural of lats