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latus

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin latus (side) of uncertain etymology.

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Noun

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latus (plural latera)

  1. (anatomy, medicine) Synonym of flank.
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Latin

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Etymology 1

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Earlier *tlātus, from Proto-Italic *tlātos, from Proto-Indo-European *tl̥h₂tós, from the root *telh₂-.

Compare Ancient Greek τλάντος (tlántos, bearing, suffering), τολμέω (tolméō, to carry, bear), τελαμών (telamṓn, broad strap for bearing something), Ἄτλας (Átlas, the 'Bearer' of Heaven), Lithuanian tiltas (bridge), Sanskrit तुला (tulā, balance), तुलयति (tulayati, lifts up, weighs), Latin tollō (to bear, support), tulī (I bore), tolerō (bear, endure), tellūs (bearing earth), Old English þolian (to endure) (English thole), Old Armenian թողում (tʻołum, I allow).

Pronunciation

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Participle

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lātus (feminine lāta, neuter lātum); first/second-declension participle

  1. perfect passive participle of ferō:
    1. borne, carried, having been carried
    2. suffered, endured, having been suffered
    3. reported, having been reported
Declension
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First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative lātus lāta lātum lātī lātae lāta
genitive lātī lātae lātī lātōrum lātārum lātōrum
dative lātō lātae lātō lātīs
accusative lātum lātam lātum lātōs lātās lāta
ablative lātō lātā lātō lātīs
vocative lāte lāta lātum lātī lātae lāta

Etymology 2

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From earlier *stlātus, from Proto-Italic *stlātos, from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (to stretch out, extend, spread) or *stelh₃- (broad). Also compare stlatta.

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Adjective

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lātus (feminine lāta, neuter lātum, comparative lātior, superlative lātissimus, adverb lātē); first/second-declension adjective

  1. wide, broad
  2. spacious, extensive
  3. wide-ranging
    Synonyms: capāx, spatiōsus
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.545–546:
      vagantur incūstōdītae lāta per arva bovēs
      cattle wander unguarded through spacious fields
Declension
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First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Aromanian: lat
  • Catalan: lat
  • Franco-Provençal:
  • French:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: lado
  • Italian: lato
  • Portuguese: lato
  • Romanian: lat
  • Spanish: lato
  • Walloon: lêye

Etymology 3

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Uncertain. Some indicate Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (flat) or *stelh₃- (broad) (in which case later would be its masculine form).

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Noun

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latus n (genitive lateris); third declension

  1. (military) side, flank
    Synonym: cornu
  2. side (e.g., of a shape)
Declension
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Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

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References

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  • latus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • latus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • latus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • latus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to have good lungs: bonis lateribus esse
    • to place the cavalry on the wings: equites ad latera disponere (B. G. 6. 8)
    • to fall upon the enemy's flank: in latus hostium incurrere
    • (ambiguous) to be always at a person's side: ab alicuius latere non discedere
    • (ambiguous) to belong to the king's bodyguard: a latere regis esse
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 329-30

Latvian

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Noun

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latus m

  1. accusative plural of lats