different between latten vs letten

English

Alternative forms

• laton

Etymology

From Middle English laten, latun, latoun, from Old French laton, laiton, from Arabic ???????? (l???n, “copper, copper alloy”), itself from Common Turkic *altun (“gold”). See Turkish alt?n, Old Turkic ????????????????? (altun, “gold”), Karakhanid ?????????? (alt?n, “gold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?læt?n/

Noun

latten (countable and uncountable, plural lattens)

1. (archaic or historical) An alloy of copper and tin, similar to bronze, with a sufficient portion of tin to make it a pewter-like color with yellowish tinge (rather than the brownish-gold color of bronze of higher copper content), once used in thin sheets and for domestic utensils and light-duty tools.
2. Sheet tin; iron plate, covered with tin; also, any metal in thin sheets.

   gold latten

Anagrams

• Talent, antlet, latent, talent

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t?n

Noun

latten

1. Plural form of lat

Anagrams

• talent

Middle English

Noun

latten

1. Alternative form of latoun

English

Verb

letten

1. (archaic) past participle of let

Adjective

letten (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, rare) Let; demised, leased.

References

• NED VI:i (1908), page 218

Anagrams

• nettle, telnet

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch letten, from Old Dutch *letten, from Proto-Germanic *latjan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?t?(n)/
• Rhymes: -?t?n

Verb

letten

1. (transitive) to pay attention, to mind [+ op (object) = to]
2. (transitive) to prevent from doing something, to keep, to stop
3. (transitive, dialectal) to watch, to look, to see

Inflection

Derived terms

• beletten
• opletten

Hungarian

Etymology

lett +? -en

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?t??n]
• Hyphenation: let?ten

Adjective

letten

1. superessive singular of lett

Noun

letten

1. superessive singular of lett

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *letten, from Proto-Germanic *latjan?.

Verb

letten

1. to hinder, to slow
2. to stop, to halt
3. to delay, to wait
4. to disadvantage, to harm

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: letten
• Limburgish: lètte

Further reading

• “letten (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “letten”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Swedish

Noun

letten

1. definite singular of lett