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Facts about Latin

• Language code (ISO 639-3): lat
• Autonyms (how to write "Latin" in Latin): latīnum / Lingua Latina / Latina
• Other names for "Latin": Latina
• The Latin language is spoken in: Vatican State

Latin is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken in the area around Rome, known as Latium. Through the power of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in Italy, and subsequently throughout the western Roman Empire, before eventually becoming a dead language. Latin has contributed many words to the English language. In particular, Latin (and Ancient Greek) roots are used in English descriptions of theology, the sciences, medicine, and law.

By the late Roman Republic (75 BC), Old Latin had been standardised into Classical Latin. Vulgar Latin was the colloquial form spoken at that time. Late Latin is the written language from the 3rd century; its colloquial form Vulgar Latin developed in the 6th to 9th centuries into the Romance languages, such as: Italian, Sardinian, Venetian, Neapolitan, Sicilian, Piedmontese, Lombard, French, Franco-Provençal, Occitan, Corsican, Ladin, Friulan, Romansh, Catalan/Valencian, Aragonese, Spanish, Asturian, Galician, Portuguese and Romanian. Medieval Latin was used as a literary language from the 9th century to the Renaissance which used Renaissance Latin. Later, Early Modern Latin and New Latin evolved. Latin was the language of international communication, scholarship and science until well into the 18th century, when vernaculars (including the Romance languages) supplanted it. Ecclesiastical Latin remains the official language of the Holy See and the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin

Latin Dictionaries

• Perseus: Latin-English dictionary, by Charlton Lewis & Charles Short (1879)

• Collatinus-Biblissima: online search in Latin dictionaries: Lewis & Short (Latin-English), Gaffiot (Latin-French), Calonghi (Latin-Italian, 1898), De Miguel (1867) & Valbuena (1819) (Latin-Spanish), Georges (Latin-German, 1913)

• LSJ.gr: online search in Greek, Latin, English, French, German (Lewis & Short, Gaffiot, Georges…)

• Logeion: online search in Latin, Greek (Lewis & Short, Gaffiot, Du Cange…) & examples from the corpus

• University of Notre Dame: Latin-English dictionary, by William Whitaker (2010)

• LatDict: Latin-English dictionary

• Chinese University of Hong Kong: Latin-English Dictionary

• AlbertMartin: Latin-German dictionary

• Auxilium: Latin-German dictionary

• Navigium: Latin-German dictionary

• LatijnNederlands: Latin-Dutch dictionary

• Dizionario-latino.com: Latin-Italian dictionary

• A Latin dictionary founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary, by Charlton Lewis & Charles Short (1879)

• A copious and critical Latin-English lexicon, founded on the Latin-German Lexicon of William Freund, by Ethan Allen Andrews (1857)

• Latin dictionary for schools by Charlton Lewis (1916)

• Latin-English dictionary for the use of junior students, by John White (1904)

• A copious and critical English-Latin dictionary by William Smith & Theophilus Hall (1871)

• A copious and critical English-Latin lexicon, founded on the Latin-German Lexicon of Charles Ernest Georges, by Joseph Riddle, Thomas Arnold & Charles Anthon (1864)

• English-Latin dictionary for the use of colleges and schools, by Joseph Riddle (1838)

• A copious lexicon of the Latin language, compiled chiefly from the Magnum Totius Latinitatis Lexicon of Facciolati and Forcellini, by Frederick Leverett (1838)

• English-Latin lexicon

• Ainsworth's Latin dictionary, revised by Alexander Jamieson (1847)

• Thesaurus linguæ latinæ compendiarius, Ainsworth's Latin dictionary, revised by Benjamin Beatson & William Ellis (1843)

• Dictionary, English and Latin by Robert Ainsworth, revised by Thomas Morell (1773): I & II

• Thesaurus linguæ latinæ compendarius or A compendious dictionary of the Latin tongue, by Robert Ainsworth, revised by Samuel Patrick (1751)

• Latin phrase-book by Carl Meissner & Henry William Auden (1894)

• Discernenda, phrases and idioms in Latin, by J. S. Howell (1901)

• Dictionary of Latin phrases by William Robertson (1824)

• Dictionnaire latin-français [PDF] Latin-French dictionary, by Félix Gaffiot, revised and published by Gérard Gréco (2016)

• Gaffiot.fr: -French dictionary, by Félix Gaffiot, online search & links to the Latin texts quoted

• Dizionario latino-italiano: Latin-Italian dictionary, by Ferruccio Calonghi, based on Karl Ernst Georges' dictionary (1898)

• Dizionario italiano-latino

• Diccionario auxiliar espanol-latino para el uso moderno del latin, by Jose Juan del Col (2007)

• Diccionario latino-español etimológico: etymological Latin-Spanish dictionary, by Raimundo de Miguel & Marqués de Morante (1867)

• Nuevo diccionario latino-español etimológico & Tratado de sinónimos (1921)

• Diccionario latino-español (Valbuena reformado): Latin-Spanish dictionary, by Manuel de Valbuena, revised by Martinez Lopez (1862)

• Diccionario español-latino by Manuel de Valbuena (1866)

• Dicionario escolar latino-portugues: Latin-Portuguese dictionary, by Ernesto Faria (1975): A-J & K-Z

• Dicionário latino-português: Latin-Portuguese dictionary, by Francisco Torrinha (1937)

• Dicionário português-latino (1939)

• Diccionario latino-portuguez: Latin-Portuguese dictionary, by Francisco dos Santos Saraiva, founded on Quicherat's dictionary (1910)

• Sources: https://www.lexilogos.com/english/latin_dictionary.htm

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