latr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lataz, whence also the Old English læt (“slow, sluggish, late”), Old High German laz (“slow, lazy”).

Adjective

latr (comparative latari, superlative latastr)

1. lazy, slow

   Latr ok ó-hlýðinn.

   Lazy and disobedient.

   Ek em latr.

   I'm lazy.

Derived terms

• latr sækir latan heim (confer Icelandic líkur sækir líkan heim (“birds of a feather flock together”) and English like attracts like)
• ólatr (dilligent)

Descendants

• Danish: lad
• Faroese: latur
• Icelandic: latur

• Norwegian: lat (Bokmål), lat (Nynorsk)
• Swedish: lat

References

• “latr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press