Latiner 
Latiner (lat'in-er). n. [< ME. latiner, latynere 
(also latimer, q. v.) = Dan. latiner = Sw. lati- 
nare, < OF. latimer, < ML. latinarius, a speaker 
or user of Latin, an interpreter, < L. Latinus, 
Latin: see Latin.] 1. One skilled in the Latin 
language; a Latinist. 
"The pity is, Daniel," replied Guy, "that Kowland Dixon 
Is no latiner, any more than those who go to see his per- 
formances." Sotithey, Doctor, xxiii. 
2. An interpreter. 
And alle weys fynden Men Latyneres to go with hem in 
the Contrees, and ferthere bezonde, in to tyme that Men 
conne the Langage. Mandemlle, Travels, p. 68. 
Latiniform (Iat'i-ni-f6rm),a. [< L. Latinus, 
Latin, + forma, form.] Latin in form; Latin- 
ized, as a' word. Compare Romaniform. 
The English neuronym has a Latin form ; it is Latini- 
form; but it presents for the time an English face and 
dress. B. Q. Wilder, Jour. Nervous Diseases, xii., 1886. 
Latinisation, Latinise. See Latinization, Lat- 
inize. 
Latinism (lat'in-izm), n. [= F. Latinisme = 
Sp. Pg. It. Latinismo, < ML. *Lutinismus, < L. 
Latinus, Latin: see Latin.'] A Latin idiom; a 
mode of expression peculiar to the Latin lan- 
guage ; use of Latin forms or derivatives. 
I owe also to Fenton the participle meandered, and to 
Sir W. D'Avenant the latinism of funeral ilicet. 
Harte, Religious Melancholy, Advertisement. 
He [the author of "Piers Plowman") disdained their 
exotic fancies, their Latinisms, their Gallicisms, and their 
Italianisras. /. D'ltraeli, Amen, of Lit., I. 214. 
Milton's Latinism was so pronounced as to be un-Eng- 
lish. Stedman, Viet. Poets, p. 181. 
Latinist (lat'in-ist), n. [= F. Latiniste = Sp. 
Pg. It. Latinista,(. ML. ioKwito,onewho speaks 
Latin, < Latinus, Latin: see Latin.'] One skilled 
in Latin ; a Latin scholar. 
This interpretacion also do both the moste number and 
the best lerned of the lattinist.es best alowe. 
Bible of 1561, Ps. iv., note. 
Every Latinist cannot understand them [words]. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 5. 
Possibly Landor was a more ready Latinist, but no Eng- 
lishman has written Greek elegiac to equal . . . the dedi- 
cation of "Atalanta." Stedman, Viet. Poets, p. 398. 
Latinistic (lat-i-nis'tik), a. [< Latinist + -ic.] 
Of or pertaining to Latinism; having a Latin 
style or idiom. Coleridge. 
Latinitaster (lafin-i-tas'ter), n. [< L. Latini- 
ta(t-)s, Latinity, + -aster, a pejorative suffix.] 
One who has a smattering of Latin. Walker. 
[Humorous and rare.] 
Latinity (la-tin 'i-ti), n. [= F. latinite = Sp. 
latinidad = Pg. latinidade = It. latinita, < L. 
latinita(t-)s, Latinity, the Latin language, < 
Latinus, Latin: see Latin.] Use of the Latin 
language ; method of speaking or writing Lat- 
in; Latin style or idiom. 
If the author's [Lyly's] Latinity is not always perfect, 
it rises with a readiness which might excite the envy of 
modern University senate-houses, had not Latin ceased to 
be familiar even to their venerable walls. 
A. W. Ward, Eng. Dram. Lit., I. 165. 
The poems of Leo XIII. are remarkable for their ex- 
quisite Latinity. The Century, XXX. 92. 
English writers who were composing in French, and the 
more learned who displayed their clerkship by their La- 
tinity. I. D' Israeli, Amen, of Lit., I. 134. 
Latinization (lat"in-i-za'shou), it. [= F. lati- 
nisation ; as Latinize + -ation.] The act of ren- 
dering into Latin. Also spelled Latinisation. 
Latinize (lat'in-iz), v.; pret. and pp. Latinized, 
ppr. Latinizing. [= F. latiniser = Sp. latinizar 
= Pg. latinisar = It. latinizzare, < LL. latini- 
zare, translate into Latin, < L. Latinus, Latin : 
see Latin.] I. trans. 1. To translate into 
Latin. 2. To convert into Latin forms, as 
words; adapt to Latin spelling or inflection; 
intermix with Latin elements, as a style of writ- 
ing. 
The macaronian is a kind of burlesque poetry, consist- 
ing of a jumble of words of different languages, with words 
of the vulgar tongue latinized, and Latin words modern- 
ized. Cambridge, Scribleriad, ii., note 16. 
II. intrans. To use words or phrases bor- 
rowed from the Latin. 
He latinizes less in the poems which follow, because it 
is more difficult to do it in verse. 
Tu-knm, Span. Lit., III. 18. 
Also spelled Latinise. 
Latinlyt (lat'in-li), adv. With purity of Latin 
style. 
You shall hardly find a man amongst them [the French] 
which can make a shift to express himself in that [the 
Latin] language, nor one amongst an hundred that can do 
it Latinly. Heylin, Voyage of France, p. 296. 
lationt (la'shon), n. [< L. latio(n-), a bearing, 
< latus, used as pp. of ferre = E. beari. Cf. 
ablation, collation, legislation, etc.] The act 
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of bearing or carrying from one place to an- 
other; transportation; translation. 
Make me a heaven ; and make me there 
Many a lesse and greater spheare ; 
Make me the straight and oblique lines. 
The motions, lotions, and the signs. 
Herrick, Hesperides, p. 48. 
latipennate (lat-i-pen'at), a. [< L. latus, broad, 
+ pennatus, winged: see pennate.] Inornith., 
broad-winged. 
latipennine (lat-i-pen'in), a. f< L. latus, broad, 
+ penna, wing, + -feel.] Same as latipennate. 
latirostral (lat-i-ros'tral), a. [< L. latus, broad, 
+ rostrum, bill, beak.] "In ornith., broad-billed ; 
of or pertaining to the Latirostres. 
latirostrate (lat-i-ros'trat), a. Same as lati- 
rostral. 
Latirostres (lat-i-ros'trez), n.pl. [NL., < L. 
latus, broad, + rostrum, bill, beak.] 1. In Sun- 
devall's classification of birds, the fifth phalanx 
of the cohort Cichlomorph&, embracing seven 
families more or less nearly related to the true 
flycatchers of the Old World (Muscicapida). 
2. In Sclater's system of 1880, a group of 
laminiplantar oscine Passeres, embracing the 
Hirundinidas or swallows: equivalent to the 
Chelidonomorpha of Sundevall. 
latirostroust (lat-i-ros'trus), a. [< L. latus, 
broad, + rostrum, bill, beak.] Same as latiros- 
tral. 
Latirostrous or flat-billed birds. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., v. 1. 
latiseptse (lat-i-sep'te), n. pi. [NL., < L. la- 
tus, broad, + S(eptum, septum, a partition.] In 
bot., cruciferous plants having the dissepiment 
broad in proportion to the thickness between 
the valves. 
latissimUS (la-tis'i-mus), n. ; pi. latissimi (-mi). 
[NL. (sc. musculus, muscle), superl. of L. latus, 
broad, wide : see latitude.] The broadest muscle 
which lies upon the back ; one of the muscles of 
the anterior extremity, arising from the spines 
of numerous vertebrae, and some otherparts, and 
inserted into the npper part of the humerus: 
commonly called more fully latissimus dorsi. See 
cut under muscle Latlsslmuu collit, a former name 
of the broadest muscle of the neck, now called platysma 
myoides. See platysma. 
latisternal (lat-i-ster'nal), a. [< L. latus, broad, 
+ NL. sternum, < Gr. afepvov, the breast, chest.] 
Having a broad and flat breast-bone : as, a lati- 
sternal ape. The anthropoid or anthropomorphic apes 
agree with man in this respect, whence the term is spe- 
cifically applied to them. 
latitancyt (lat'i-tan-si), n. [< latitait(t) + -cy.] 
The state of lying concealed; latency; hiber- 
nation. 
It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not most of 
any) a very abstemious animal, and such as by reason of 
its frigidity, paucity of blood, and latitancy in the winter 
. . . will long subsist without a visible sustentation. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., Hi. 21. 
latitantt (lat'i-tant), a. [< L. latitan(t-)s, ppr. 
of latitare, freq. of latere, lie hidden, lurk: see 
latent.] Lying hidden; latent; hibernating. 
Snakes, lizards, snails, and divers other insects latitant 
many months in the year ... do long subsist without 
nutrition. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 21. 
latitat (lat'i-tat), re. [L., he lies hidden, 3d 
pers. sing. pres. ind. of latitare, lie hidden: see 
latitant.] In Eng. law, an old writ by which a 
person was summoned to the King's Bench to 
answer, as on the supposition that he lay con- 
cealed. 
I desire him also to conceale himself as he can, If he can- 
not get a speciall pardon, to weare a Latitat about his 
neck. N. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 72. 
latitationt (lat-i-ta'shon), n. [< L. latitatio(n-). a 
hiding, < latitare, lie hidden : see latitant.] Tie 
act of skulking or lying concealed. E. Phillips, 
1706. 
Latitores (lat-i-to'rez), n.pl. [NL., < L. lati- 
tare, lie hidden: see latitant.] In Blyth's sys- 
tem (1849), the skulkers; an order of birds cor- 
responding to the Macrodactyli of Cu vier. [Not 
in use.] 
latitude (lat'i-tud), . [< ME. latitude, < OF. 
latitude, F. latitude = Sp. latitud = Pg. latitude 
= It. latitudine, < L. latittido, breadth, width, 
< latus, broad, OL. stlatus (appearing in fern. 
stlata, a broad strip), ult. a var. of stratus, pp. of 
sternere, spread out, strew: see stratum, streie.] 
If. Extent from side to side, or distance side- 
wise from a given point or line; breadth; width. 
Provided the length do not exceed the latitude above 
one third part. Sir H. Wotton, Elem. of Architecture. 
Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs. 
Cowper, Yardley Oak. 
2. Extent within limits of any kind; scope; 
range; comprehensiveness: as, to be allowed 
latitude 
great latitude of motion or action ; latitude of 
meaning or of application. 
This doctrine of clenches hath a more ample latitude and 
extent than is perceived. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 225. 
Then, in comes the benign latitude of the doctrine of 
good-will, and cuts asunder all those hard pinching cords. 
South, Sermons. 
The nation was less governed by laws than by customs, 
which admitted a great latitude of interpretation. 
Hume, Hist. Eng., I., App. 1. 
Latitude of action should not be given to a relief party 
who on a known coast are searching for men who' know 
their plans and orders. 
Schley and Soley, Eescue of Greely, p. 33. 
Hence 3. Extent of deviation from a stan- 
dard; freedom from rules or limits: as, latitude 
of conduct. 
In human actions, there are no degrees and precise nat- 
ural limits described, but a latitude is indulged. 
Jer. Taylor. 
Augustus . . . reproved his daughter for her excess in 
apparel, and both rebuked and imprisoned her for her im- 
modest latitudes. Penn, No Cross, No Crown, ii. 
4. The elevation of the pole of the heavens at 
a station, or the angle at which the plane of 
the horizon is cut by the earth's axis ; the total 
curvature or bending of a meridian between 
the equator and a station ; the angle which the 
plumb-line at any place makes with the plumb- 
line at the equator in the same plane ; on a map, 
the angular distance of a point on the earth's 
surface from the equator, measured on the me- 
ridian of the point : as, St. Paul's, London, is in 
lat. 51 30' 48* N.; Cape Horn is in tat. 55 59' S. 
Latitude is determined by different methods, according as 
circumstances may require. At sea the instrument exclu- 
sively used is the quadrant or sextant, the latter being sim- 
ply a more accurately constructed and therefore more ex- 
pensive form of the instrument. With this the altitude 
of the sun Is observed when on the meridian, and from 
this altitude, with the aid of the declination taken from 
the Nautical Almanac, with certain corrections for dip, re- 
fraction, etc., the latitude is obtained. The same method 
is used on land (with the aid of an artificial horizon in place 
of the natural) in cases where no great accuracy is required, 
as in ordinary geographical reconnaissances. More accu- 
rate results are secured by increasing the number of obser- 
vations by the method of circummeridian altitudes, sev- 
eral observations being taken Just before and Just after 
noon (or, if a fixed star is observed, before and after its cul- 
mination), from which, with suitable corrections, a mean 
result is attained more accurate than that furnished by a 
single observation. A much higher degree of accuracy is 
reached by the use of the zenith-telescope, which is a port- 
able instrument, but considerably less so than the sex- 
tant, which the observer holds in his hand. With this in- 
strument the latitude is determined by measuring micro- 
metrically thedifference of the meridional zenith-distances 
of two stars near the zenith, one north and theother south of 
it. The zenith-telescope is used for latitude determinations 
by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey at the sta- 
tions belonging to the primary triangulation. The most ac- 
curate method of determining the latitude in a fixed obser- 
vatory is by observing, with the meridian circle, the alti- 
tude of a circumpolar star at its transits above and below 
the pole. This method is independent of the declination 
of the star, and not necessarily liable to great errors of re- 
fraction. Another meihod sometimes employed in fixed 
observatories is to observe the transit of a star with a 
transit-instrument in the prime vertical, the time of the 
transit being observed with the instrument pointing east, 
and again with the same instrument pointing west, whence 
the altitude of the pole may be deduced. There are other 
methods of determining the latitude, but they are much 
less important than those mentioned. 
5. In astron., the angular distance of a star 
north or south of the ecliptic, measured on that 
secondary to the ecliptic which passes through 
the body. Secondaries to the ecliptic are called circles 
of celestial latitude, and parallels to the ecliptic are called 
parallels of celestial latitude. Latitude is geocentric or 
heliocentric according as the earth or the sun is taken as 
the center from which the angle is measured. 
6. The quantity of the interval between two 
latitudes, either in the geographical or the as- 
tronomical sense : as, to sail through 30 of 
latitude. 
The zodiak in hevene is ymagened to ben a superflce 
contienyng a latitude of 12 degrees. 
Chaucer, Astrolabe, i. 21. 
7. A place or region as marked by parallels 
of latitude : as, to fish in high latitudes (that is, 
in places where the latitude is a high number) ; 
the orange will not ripen in this latitude (that 
is, it will not do so in any place on the same 
parallel of latitude as the place spoken of) ; you 
are out of your latitude (that is, literally or fig- 
uratively, you have committed an error of navi- 
gation, so that the latitude you have assigned 
to the ship's place is not the true one). 
Those latitudes and altitudes where no crops will grow. 
W. K. Greg, Misc. Essays, 1st ser., p. 103. 
Argument of the latitude. See argument. Ascend- 
ing latitude. See ascending. Calm latitudes. See 
calmi. Celestial latitude. See def. 6, above. Circle 
of latitude. See circle. Geocentric, reduced, or cen- 
tral latitude, the angle, measured at the center of the 
earth, between a straight line to any place and the line 
