latimer

See also: Latimer

English

Etymology

From Old French latinier, latimier (“interpreter”, literally “one knowing Latin”).

Noun

latimer (plural latimers)

1. (obsolete) An interpreter.

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   • 1966, Constance Bullock-Davies, Professional interpreters and the matter of Britain

     […] royal and household latimers were so usual that he naturally provided Vortigern with one.

   • 2008, Neil Cartlidge, Boundaries in medieval romance (page 81)

     It is likely that Anglo-Norman formed a necessary element of Morris Regan's linguistic repertoire as a latimer […]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “latimer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• lamiter, maltier, marlite, metrial