latus
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
latus (plural latera)
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LatinEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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”).
PronunciationEdit
ParticipleEdit
lātus (feminine lāta, neuter lātum); first/second-declension participle
- perfect passive participle of ferō:
DeclensionEdit
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 2Edit
From earlier *stlātus, from Proto-Italic *stlātos, from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to stretch out, extend, spread”) or *stelh₃- (“broad”). Also compare stlatta.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
lātus (feminine lāta, neuter lātum, comparative lātior, superlative lātissimus, adverb lātē); first/second-declension adjective
DeclensionEdit
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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Etymology 3Edit
Of uncertain origin. Some indicate Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”) or *stelh₃- (“broad”) (in which case later would be its masculine form).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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
DeclensionEdit
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 |
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ReferencesEdit
- “latus”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; 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
LatvianEdit
NounEdit
latus m
- accusative plural form of lats