latitat

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Etymology

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Latin , meaning "he lies hidden", from latito.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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latitat (plural latitats)

  1. (UK, law, historical) A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for latitat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

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Verb

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latitat

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of latitō