latimer

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Etymology

From Old French latimier, latinier (“interpreter”), etc. and directly from Vulgar Latin latimarus, from Latin latinarius (“interpreter, speaker of Latin”), from lingua Latina + -arius (“-ary”). Equivalent to Latin +‎ -er and compare Latiner.

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latimer (plural latimers)

  1. (historical) Synonym of interpreter.
    • 1642, Edw Coke, The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England. , London: M Flesher, and R Young, for E D, R M, W L and D P, →OCLC:
      ... what if the woman cannot ſpeak any language that the judge doth underſtand, as Corniſh, Welſh, Dutch, or the like? then there ſhall be a Latimer, that is, an interpreter upon his oath to interpret truly ...
    • 1966, Constance Bullock-Davies, Professional interpreters and the matter of Britain:
      royal and household latimers were so usual that he naturally provided Vortigern with one.
    • 2008, Neil Cartlidge, Boundaries in medieval romance, page 81:
      It is likely that Anglo-Norman formed a necessary element of Morris Regan's linguistic repertoire as a latimer

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