latus

See also: Latus

English

Etymology

From Latin latus (“side”) of uncertain etymology.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

latus (plural latera)

2. (anatomy, medicine) Synonym of flank.

Related terms

• latus rectum
• rostrolatus

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 (“bore”), tolerō (“bear, endure”), tellūs (“bearing earth”), Old English þolian (“to endure”) (English thole), Old Armenian թողում (tʻołum, “to allow”), Persian ترازو (tarâzu, “balance, scales”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫaː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlaː.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.

	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	lātus	lāta	lātum	lātī	lātae	lāta
genitive	lātī	lātae	lātī	lātōrum	lātārum	lātōrum
dative	lātō	lātae	lātō	lātīs
accusative	lātum	lātam	lātum	lātōs	lātās	lāta
ablative	lātō	lātā	lātō	lātīs
vocative	lāte	lāta	lātum	lātī	lātae	lāta

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Historically, the term has been compared to Ancient Greek στέλλω (stéllō, “to make ready”) and Old Church Slavonic стьлати (stĭlati, “to spread, stretch”), on which basis a root *stelH- had been reconstructed. According to this theory, the Latin term could be derived from *stl̥Htós. However, the root of the aforementioned cognate is now largely reconstructed as *stel-, which could not produce the Latin term. De Vaan suggests a possible comparison to Old Irish con·slá (“to depart”), in which case the Latin word would have developed semantically from "going apart, spreading" to "wide." This theory does require a slightly irregularly development of the initial *slā- to Latin *stlā-, whence finally lā-. However, a similar sound change may be attested in līs.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫaː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlaː.tus]

Adjective

lātus (feminine lāta, neuter lātum, comparative lātior, superlative lātissimus, adverb lātē); first/second-declension adjective

2. wide, broad
3. spacious, extensive
4. wide-ranging

   Synonyms: capāx, spatiōsus

   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 1.545–546:

     vagantur incūstōdītae lāta per arva bovēs

     cattle wander unguarded through spacious fields

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	lātus	lāta	lātum	lātī	lātae	lāta
genitive	lātī	lātae	lātī	lātōrum	lātārum	lātōrum
dative	lātō	lātae	lātō	lātīs
accusative	lātum	lātam	lātum	lātōs	lātās	lāta
ablative	lātō	lātā	lātō	lātīs
vocative	lāte	lāta	lātum	lātī	lātae	lāta

Derived terms

• sēnsū lātō

Descendants

Descendants

• Aromanian: lat
• → Catalan: lat
• Franco-Provençal: lá
• French: lé
• Italian: lato
• Old Galician-Portuguese: lado
• Old Spanish: lado
• Romanian: lat
• Walloon: lêye
• → Portuguese: lato

Etymology 3

Uncertain. Some indicate Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”) or *stelh₃- (“broad”), in which latter case it would be related with etymology 2 above; cf. also later m.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫa.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlaː.tus]

Noun

latus n (genitive lateris); third declension

2. (military) side, flank

   Synonym: cornu

3. 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).

	singular	plural
nominative	latus	latera
genitive	lateris	laterum
dative	laterī	lateribus
accusative	latus	latera
ablative	latere	lateribus
vocative	latus	latera

Derived terms

• laterālis
• quadrilaterus
• quadrilatus

Descendants

Descendants

• Asturian: llau
• Catalan: llat
• → English: latus
• Franco-Provençal: las
• Italian: lato
• Old French: lez
  • French: lès, lez
  • → English: le
• Old Galician-Portuguese: lado
  • Fala: lau
  • Galician: lado
  • Portuguese: lado
• Old Spanish: lado
  • Ladino: lado
  • Spanish: lado
• Romanian: lat, latură
• Sicilian: latu

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, 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^[1], 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