| Noun | 1. | Latin - any dialect of the language of ancient Romehybrid, loan-blend, loanblend - a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root) Italic language, Italic - a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative Old Latin - the oldest recorded Latin (dating back at early as the 6th century B.C.) classical Latin - the language of educated people in ancient Rome; "Latin is a language as dead as dead can be. It killed the ancient Romans--and now it's killing me" Low Latin - any dialect of Latin other than the classical nihil - (Latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ); "nihil habet" annum - (Latin) year; "per annum" | |
| 2. | Latin - an inhabitant of ancient Latium | |
| 3. | Latin - a person who is a member of those peoples whose languages derived from Latin | |
| Adj. | 1. | Latin - of or relating to the ancient Latins or the Latin language; "Latin verb conjugations" | |
| 2. | Latin - having or resembling the psychology or temper characteristic of people of Latin America; "very Latin in temperament"; "a Latin disdain"; "his hot Latin blood"emotional - of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly emotional" | |
| 3. | Latin - relating to people or countries speaking Romance languages; "Latin America" | |
| 4. | Latin - relating to languages derived from Latin; "Romance languages" | |
| 5. | Latin - of or relating to the ancient region of Latium; "Latin towns" | |