Latin

• adj.ラテン語; ラテン系
• n. ラテン語; ラテン系

ラテン語のLatinus、またはLatiumから、ローマ時代の地名、語源的には緯度、広がり、幅と同じ。ラティウムの人々の言語、ラテン語。

Latin (adj.)

Old English latin, from Latin Latinus "belonging to Latium," the region of Italy around Rome, possibly from PIE root *stela- "to spread, extend," with a sense of "flat country" (as opposed to the mountainous district of the Sabines), or from a prehistoric non-IE language. The Latin adjective also was used of the Roman language and people.

Centurion: What's this, then? "People called Romanes they go the house?"
Brian: It ... it says, "Romans, go home."
Centurion [thrashing him like a schoolboy]: No, it doesn't. 'Go home?' This is motion towards. Isn't it, boy?
Brian: Ah ... ah, dative, sir! Ahh! No, not dative! Not the dative, sir! No! Ah! Oh, the ... accusative! Domum, sir! Ah! Oooh! Ah!
Centurion [pulling him by the ear]: Except that domum takes the ...?
Brian: The locative, sir!
[Monty Python, "Life of Brian"]

Used as a designation for "people whose languages descend from Latin" (1856), hence Latin America (1862). The Latin Quarter (French Quartier latin) of Paris, on the south (left) bank of the Seine, was the site of university buildings in the Middle Ages, hence the place where Latin was spoken. The surname Latimer, Lattimore, etc. is from Vulgar Latin latimarus, from Latin latinarius "interpreter," literally "a speaker of Latin." "What Latin was to the learned, that their tongue was to laymen; hence latino was used for any dialect, even Arabic and the language of birds ...." [Donkin, "Etymological Dictionary of the Romance Languages," 1864].

Latin (n.)

"the language of the (ancient) Romans," Old English latin, from Latin latinium (see Latin (adj.)). The more common form in Old English was l?den, from Vulgar Latin *ladinum, probably influenced by Old English leoden "language."

1. Carol is a tall，dark， Latin type of woman.

キャロルは背が高く、黒髪の茶肌でラテン風の女性だ。

2. Latin and Greek will be squeezed out of school timetables.

ラテン語とギリシャ語は学校のカリキュラムから退出します。

3.Above its doors was a Latin inscription：Non omnia posumus omnes.

ドアの上にはラテン語の銘「人は万能ではない」が刻まれている。

4.Leaders of eigt Latin American countries are meeting in Caracas、Venezuela、today.

ラテンアメリカ8カ国の指導者が今日ベネズエラのカラカスで会合した。

5.He eventually took Charlie 's place in a popular Latin band.

彼は最終的に人気のあるラテンバンドの中でチャーリーの位置に取って代わった。