LATIN


Meaning of LATIN in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Latin American

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At seventy-four, he published humorous verse in Latin .

On 11 September 1962, Pope John broadcast to the world in Latin .

They were sure Latin would make it harder.

To those few students of Latin who express a particular interest.

William Stearn, author of Botanical Latin .

II. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

music

He killed the engine and the lights. Latin music took over.

The Puerto Rican sweepers carried transistors playing Latin music .

name

The Camerarius Florilegium depicts 473 plants with their Latin names inscribed in Camerarius' hand.

The Latin names of the gods are used.

The conger eel. Latin name ... conger conger! 8.

I don't know the Latin name .

The first parts of these Latin names used to be used in naming cations.

Futile pastime: memorising the Latin names of 150 fish species when they've never even owned a goldfish.

I have recently bought five, but I don't know the Latin name .

nation

Mr Liebenow worries that widespread disappointment, combined with domestic pressures, will prompt some Latin nations to step backward.

phrase

The Daily Telegraph is for those who can quote Latin phrases .

Fong told his children the few Latin phrases he could remember and the way to say the rosary.

Father Poole closed his eyes and joined his hands, Latin phrases stumbling over his tongue.

text

But the Anglicans, like the Lutherans, did not suddenly give up the composition of Latin texts .

In effect the Latin texts provide for congregational participation, respectively, in the anamnesis, the communion-epiclesis, and the intercessions.

word

For example, the Latin word for a table is mensa.

The Latin words died, replaced by ones in patois.

Loud Latin words in a clerical voice.

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He was big on Latin culture.

One of the properties comprised five thousand dunums of land owned by the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem near Nablus.

The Latin names of the gods are used.

They gathered in the Latin Quarter in their thousands.

Walls are covered with grainy blow-ups of sleek-jawed Latin athletes.

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