different between litten vs latten

English

Etymology

Pseudo-archaic formation from lit +? -en.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t?n

Verb

litten

1. (archaic) past participle of light
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 7:

     They’ve been inside the earth, too—there are openings which human beings know nothing of—some of them in these very Vermont hills—and great worlds of unknown life down there; blue-litten K’n-yan, red-litten Yoth, and black, lightless N’kai.

Derived terms

• moonlitten
• starlitten

Anagrams

• TELINT, lettin'

German

Pronunciation

Verb

litten

1. inflection of leiden:
   1. first/third-person plural preterite
   2. first/third-person plural subjunctive II

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