laten

From late +‎ -en.

laten (third-person singular simple present latens, present participle latening, simple past and past participle latened)

1. (intransitive) To grow late; become later.
   • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, London: Faber and Faber, page 142 (Faber Paper 1972 edition):

     The afternoon was latening, but there was, I think, a quietly commemorative glow from the west.

   • 1930, Alec Waugh, Three Score and Ten, page 3:

     Not even when the hour latened, when the courts became filled with boys returning from their holidays, when the moment for saying "Good-bye" was only a few minutes distant, not even then did his high spirits leave him.

   • 2011, Catherine Winchester, Northern Light:

     Then he returned to Margaret's side and sat with her for the rest of the evening, insisting that she rest. As the hour latened he kissed her on the cheek and got up to leave.

• Antle, ental, leant

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːtə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: la‧ten
• Rhymes: -aːtən

From Middle Dutch laten, from Old Dutch lātan, from Proto-West Germanic *lātan, from Proto-Germanic *lētaną.

laten

1. (copulative) to leave, to cause to remain in the same position or state

   Ze lieten het zo.

   They left it like that.

2. (auxiliary, with object) to leave, to allow to remain/continue to

   Laat dat daar maar liggen.

   Just leave it lying there.

3. (auxiliary, with object) to let, to allow to

   Ze lieten hem gaan.

   They let him go.

4. (auxiliary, with object) to cause to, to make; creates a causative phrase.

   Hij liet zijn spullen op de grond vallen.

   He dropped his stuff on the ground.

   Laat me weten hoe laat je thuiskomt.

   Let me know at what time you'll come home.

5. (auxiliary, with object) to may, to let; forms an optative phrase.

   Laat er licht zijn.

   Let there be light.

6. (auxiliary, with object) to may, to let; forms a cohortative phrase.

   Laten ze een kuil graven.

   May they dig a hole.

   Laten we naar de bioscoop gaan!

   Let′s go to the cinema!

7. (transitive) to not do, to refrain from

   Laat dat!

   Don't do that!

8. (transitive, Suriname, colloquial) to leave someone, to end a romantic relationship
   • 2019, A Sa Go, Mie Na Swit Kontretjie:

     Maar Clyde luister, luister, ik heb je je vrouw niet laten laten.

     But Clyde, listen, listen, I didn't make you leave your wife.

• Afrikaans: laat
• Berbice Creole Dutch: latn
• Jersey Dutch: lâte
• Skepi Creole Dutch: at

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

laten

1. plural of laat (“serf”)

• talen

laten

1. inflection of latar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative
2. third-person plural present indicative of latir

• låten (New Saxon Spelling)

From Old Saxon lātan, from Proto-West Germanic *lātan, from Proto-Germanic *lētaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁d-.

laten (past singular leet, past participle laten, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. (auxiliary, with an infinitive) to allow; to permit; to let
2. (auxiliary, with an infinitive) to have someone (do something); to have (something done); to make (something happen); to cause (something to be done)

   wat maken laten ― to have something done

   een wat doon laten ― to have someone do something

3. (transitive) to let; to leave
4. (transitive) to stop (something); to quit; to refrain from; to help doing (something)
5. (intransitive) to cease; to desist

From Old Dutch lātan, from Proto-West Germanic *lātan, from Proto-Germanic *lētaną.

lâten

1. to leave, to cause to remain in the same position or state
2. to release
3. to let, to lose (of bodily fluids)
4. to leave, to let remain, to leave behind
5. to leave, to depart from
6. to not do, to refrain from
7. to stop doing, to cease doing
8. (auxiliary) to allow, to not prevent
9. (auxiliary) to cause to, to make

• Dutch: laten
  • Afrikaans: laat
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: latn
  • Jersey Dutch: lâte
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: at
• Limburgish: laote

• “laten”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “laten (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

laten

1. Alternative form of Latyn

laten

1. Alternative form of latoun

laten

1. third-person plural present indicative of latir

laten

1. definite singular of lat

• ental, talen