latr
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Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *lataz, whence also Old English læt (“slow, sluggish, late”), Old High German laz (“slow, lazy”).
Adjective
[edit]latr (comparative latari, superlative latastr)
Derived terms
[edit]- latr sækir latan heim (compare Icelandic líkur sækir líkan heim (“birds of a feather flock together”) and English like attracts like)
- ólatr (“diligent”)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “latr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press