latus

English

Etymology

From Latin latus (“side”), from Proto-Italic *tlātos, from Proto-Indo-European *tl̥h₂tós, from the root *telh₂-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɪ.təs/
• Rhymes: -eɪtəs

Noun

latus (plural latera)

1. (medicine) Flank.

Related terms

• latus rectum

Anagrams

• Altus, Aults, Austl., Tauls, Tulsa, sault, talus

Latin

Etymology 1

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.tus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.tus/,

Participle

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

First/second-declension adjective.

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.tus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.tus/,

Adjective

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

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

• sēnsū lātō

Descendants

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.tus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.tus/,

Noun

latus n (genitive lateris); third declension

1. (military) side, flank

   Synonym: cornu

2. side (e.g., of a shape)
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.24:

     Duabus portis ab utroque latere turrium

     from two gates on each sides of the turrets

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

• laterālis
• quadrilaterus

Descendants

References

• “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, 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

Noun

latus m

1. accusative plural of lats