different between latus vs lats

English

Etymology

From Latin latus (“side”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?.t?s/
• Rhymes: -e?t?s

Noun

latus (plural latera)

1. (medicine) Flank.

Anagrams

• Altus, Aults, Austl., Tauls, Tulsa, sault, talus

Latin

Etymology 1

Earlier *tl?tus, from Proto-Italic *tl?tos, from Proto-Indo-European *tl?h?tós, from the root *telh?-. Compare Ancient Greek ??????? (tlántos, “bearing, suffering”), ?????? (tolmé?, “to carry, bear”), ??????? (telam?n, “broad strap for bearing something”), ????? (Átlas, “the 'Bearer' of Heaven”), Lithuanian tiltas (“bridge”), Sanskrit ???? (tul?, “balance”), ?????? (tulayati, “lifts up, weighs”), Latin toll? (“to bear, support”), tul? (“I bore”), toler? (“bear, endure”), tell?s (“bearing earth”), Old English þolian (“to endure”) (English thole), Old Armenian ?????? (t?o?um, “I allow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?la?.tus/, [???ä?t??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?la.tus/, [?l??t?us]

Participle

l?tus (feminine l?ta, neuter l?tum); first/second-declension participle

1. perfect passive participle of fer?:
   1. borne, carried, having been carried
   2. suffered, endured, having been suffered
   3. reported, having been reported

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Etymology 2

From earlier *stl?tus, from Proto-Italic *stl?tos, from Proto-Indo-European *sterh?- (“to stretch out, extend, spread”) or *stelh?- (“broad”). Also compare stlatta.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?la?.tus/, [???ä?t??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?la.tus/, [?l??t?us]

Adjective

l?tus (feminine l?ta, neuter l?tum, comparative l?tior, superlative l?tissimus, adverb l?t?); first/second-declension adjective

1. wide, broad
2. spacious, extensive

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

• sens? l?t?

Descendants

Etymology 3

Of uncertain origin. Some indicate Proto-Indo-European *pleth?- (“flat”) or *stelh?- (“broad”) (in which case later would be its masculine form).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?la.tus/, [???ät??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?la.tus/, [?l??t?us]

Noun

latus n (genitive lateris); third declension

1. (military) side, flank
2. side (e.g., of a shape)

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

• later?lis
• quadrilaterus

Descendants

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

Latvian

Noun

latus m

1. accusative plural form of lats

English

Etymology 1

From Hindi ??? (l??) etc. + -s.

Noun

lats

1. plural of lat: staves; pillars.

Etymology 2

Clipping of latrine (q.v.) + -s.

Noun

lats pl (normally plural, singular lat)

1. (Britain slang) Latrines: rudimentary or military facilities for urination and defecation.
   • 1927, William Edward Collinson, Contemporary English, p. 92:

     At Salisbury Plain and Camberley in 1909/10 I learnt a number of camping expressions like... lats (latrines).

   • 1940, M. Marples, Public School Slang, p. 112:

     Other synonyms [sc. for lavatories] are rears, lats... and dubs.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:bathroom

Etymology 3

From Latvian lats, from Latvija (“Latvia”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??ts/
• (US) IPA^(key): /l?ts/

Noun

lats

1. plural of lat: the former currency or money of Latvia.
2. (historical numismatics) Alternative form of lat (plural lati).

Etymology 4

A clipping of Latin latissimus + -s

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læts/

Noun

lats pl (normally plural, singular lat)

1. (slang) The latissimus dorsi muscles.

Etymology 5

A clipping of latitude + -s.

Noun

lats

1. plural of lat: latitude.

References

Anagrams

• Alts, LTAs, SALT, Salt, TLAs, alts, last, salt, slat

Gothic

Romanization

lats

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Latvian

Etymology

A reduced form of Latvija, first used in 1922 to name the new currency that replaced the Latvian rublis.

Pronunciation

Noun

lats m (1st declension)

1. lats (monetary unit of Latvia between 1922 and 1940, and again between 1993 and 2013; replaced by the Euro on Jan. 1st, 2014)

Declension

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

lats m (definite singular latsen, indefinite plural latsar, definite plural latsane)

1. (numismatics) lats (currency of Latvia)

References

• “lats” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Latvian lats.

Noun

lats ?

1. lats, currency of Latvia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

lats

1. indefinite genitive singular of lat

Anagrams

• last, salt, stal, tals