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Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

is an Italic language, originally spoken in ancient Rome and its empire.

Latin can also refer to:

Language and languages

  • The Roman or Latin alphabet
    Latin alphabet
    The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...

    , which became the basic script used by most European languages
  • Wheelock's Latin, a textbook for teaching the Latin language
  • Dog Latin
    Dog Latin
    Dog Latin, Cod Latin, macaronic Latin, or mock Latin refers to the creation of a phrase or jargon in imitation of Latin, often by directly translating English words into Latin without conjugation or declension...

    , a whimsical pseudo-language utilizing Latin elements
  • Macaronic Latin, the basis for defining Macaronic language
    Macaronic language
    Macaronic refers to text spoken or written using a mixture of languages, sometimes including bilingual puns, particularly when the languages are used in the same context . The term is also sometimes used to denote hybrid words, which are in effect internally macaronic...

    , a mixed language
  • Pig Latin
    Pig Latin
    Pig Latin is a language game of alterations played in English. To form the Pig Latin form of an English word the first consonant is moved to the end of the word and an ay is affixed . The object is to conceal the meaning of the words from others not familiar with the rules...

    , a whimsical pseudo-language based on sound alternations in English
  • Latino sine Flexione
    Latino sine Flexione
    Latino sine flexione , or Peano’s Interlingua , is an international auxiliary language invented by the Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano in 1903. It is a simplified version of Latin, and retains its vocabulary...

    , an artificial language based on Latin but without inflections
  • Latinism
    Latinism
    A Latinism is an idiom, structure, or word derived from or suggestive of the Latin language. For Latinistic words in English, see Latin influence in English....

    , the use of words from or like Latin
  • Latinization (literature), the alteration of foreign words into Latin-like ones

Ethnic groups

  • Latins (Italic tribe)
    Latins (Italic tribe)
    The Latins were a people of ancient Italy who included the inhabitants of the early City of Rome. From ca. 1000 BC, the Latins inhabited the small part of the peninsula known to the Romans as Old Latium , that is, the region between the river Tiber and the promontory of Monte Circeo The Latins (or...

    , a people inhabiting ancient Italy
  • Various people throughout history who have been called Latins
    Latins
    "Latins" refers to different groups of people and the meaning of the word changes for where and when it is used.The original Latins were an Italian tribe inhabiting central and south-central Italy. Through conquest by their most populous city-state, Rome, the original Latins culturally "Romanized"...


People with the surname Latin

  • Denis Latin
    Denis Latin
    Denis Latin is a Croatian television host born on 14 February 1966 in Šibenik.He begun to work on HRT in 1987 and two years later, in 1989, he graduated from Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb. In 1990 he became the announcer of Dnevnik, the daily news program on HRT, and with the age of 24 was...

     (b. 1966), Croatian television host
  • Ivo Latin (1929–2002), former speaker of the Parliament of Croatia and Mayor of Zagreb

Music

  • Latin dance, a division of ballroom dancing
  • Latin jazz
    Latin jazz
    Latin jazz is the general term given to jazz with Latin American rhythms.The three main categories of Latin Jazz are Brazilian, Cuban and Puerto Rican:# Brazilian Latin Jazz includes bossa nova...

    , jazz based on the rhythms of and similar to those of Latin dance
  • "Latin", the fourth movement of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells 2003
    Tubular Bells 2003
    Tubular Bells 2003 is an album by Mike Oldfield, released in 2003. It is a complete re-recording of Oldfield's 1973 album debut Tubular Bells, which had been released 30 years earlier.- Background :...

    album
  • Latin (album)
    Latin (album)
    Latin is the third album from improvisational electronic band Holy Fuck. It was placed on the Long List for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize. In the United States, the album reached #14 on the Billboard Dance charts and #40 on the Heatseekers chart....

    , an album by the band Holy Fuck

Other

  • Latin honors
    Latin honors
    Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. This system is primarily used in the United States, Canada, and in many countries of continental Europe, though some institutions also use the English translation of these...

    , expressions in Latin of academic distinction placed on a new degree
  • Latin square
    Latin square
    In combinatorics and in experimental design, a Latin square is an n × n array filled with n different symbols, each occurring exactly once in each row and exactly once in each column...

    , a square array in which each symbol appears exactly once in each row and each column
  • Latin Rite, the principal rite within the Roman Catholic Church as distinguished, for example, from Orthodox Christianity

See also

  • Ladin
    Ladin
    Ladin is a language consisting of a group of dialects spoken in the Dolomite Mountains in Northern Italy in the border regions of the provinces Trentino, South Tyrol and Belluno...

  • Lateen
    Lateen
    A lateen or latin-rig is a triangular sail set on a long yard mounted at an angle on the mast, and running in a fore-and-aft direction....

  • Latino (disambiguation)
    Latino (disambiguation)
    In English, Latino can refer to:*Hispanic and Latino Americans, an ethnic group in the United States*Latino , a Brazilian singer*Latino sine Flexione, a constructed language*Mascalzone Latino, an Italian yacht racing team...

  • Latina (disambiguation)
  • Latin Quarter (disambiguation)
  • Lattin (disambiguation)
  • Latinus
    Latinus
    Latinus was a figure in both Greek and Roman mythology.-Greek mythology:In Hesiod's Theogony, Latinus was the son of Odysseus and Circe who ruled the Tyrsenoi, presumably the Etruscans, with his brothers Ardeas and Telegonus...

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