latine

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
8
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ləˈtiːneɪ/
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/ləˈtiːneɪ/ · /ləˈtineɪ/ · /læ-/ · /lɑː-/

Definition of latine

4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of Latin.
    “Wherein to speak strictly, if by this word Grashopper, we understand that animal which is implied by τέττιξ with the Greeks, and by Cicada with the Latines; we may with safety affirm the picture is widely mistaken, and that for ought enquiry can inform, there is no such insect in England.”
    “But because the letters of every tongue, as we shewed in the first book, have in their number, order, and figure a Celestiall and Divine originall, I shall easily grant this calculation concerning the names of spirits to be made not only by Hebrew letters, but also by Chaldean, and Arabick, Ægyptian, Greek, Latine, and any other...”
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noun

  1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of Latin.
    “Wherein to speak strictly, if by this word Grashopper, we understand that animal which is implied by τέττιξ with the Greeks, and by Cicada with the Latines; we may with safety affirm the picture is widely mistaken, and that for ought enquiry can inform, there is no such insect in England.”
    “But because the letters of every tongue, as we shewed in the first book, have in their number, order, and figure a Celestiall and Divine originall, I shall easily grant this calculation concerning the names of spirits to be made not only by Hebrew letters, but also by Chaldean, and Arabick, Ægyptian, Greek, Latine, and any other...”
  2. (gender-neutral, neologism)Someone of Latin American descent; a Latino or Latina.

name

  1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of Latin.
    “Costard: Go to; thou hast it ad dungill^([sic]), at the fingers’ ends, as they say. Holofernes: O, I smell false Latine; dunghill for unguem.”

adj

  1. (gender-neutral, neologism, not-comparable)Hispanic; Latino or Latina.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish latine (“Latine; Latino or Latina”). The gender-neutral suffix -e replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o.

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