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Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
Latīnum n sg (genitive Latīnī); second declension
- Latin language
c. 45 BCE,
Cicero,
Tusculan Disputations 3.29:
- Licet enim, ut saepe facimus, in Latinum illa convertere.
- It is therefore proper, as we often do, to translate those things into Latin.
44 BCE,
Cicero,
De Officiis 2.87:
- Has res commodissime Xenophon Socraticus persecutus est in eo libro, qui Oeconomicus inscribitur, quem nos, ista fere aetate cum essemus, qua es tu nunc, e Graeco in Latinum convertimus.
- Xenophon agreeably discussed this topic in his book entitled Oeconomicus, which I translated when I was almost your age, from Greek into Latin.
556-636 CE, Isidorus Hispalensis, Etymologiae, page VIII:Nam cum "iūstitia’ sonum Z litterā exprimat, tamen, quia Latīnum est, per T scrībendum est. Sīc "mīlitia" "malitia" "nēquitia" et cētera similia.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.
See also
Adjective
Latīnum
- inflection of Latīnus:
- accusative masculine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular