(a.) Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin composition or idiom.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman.
(n.) The language of the ancient Romans.
(n.) An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin.
(n.) A member of the Roman Catholic Church.
(v. t.) To write or speak in Latin; to turn or render into Latin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.
(2) Latin America has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world – 95% of abortions carried out there are performed in unsafe conditions.
(3) In an anthropologic study of illness referral among Latin-American immigrants three phases were ascertained: First, there was extended use of self-treatment.
(4) The 128 children arrived from one of eight countries in Asia or Latin America at ages ranging from 1 month to 10 years; 57% were female.
(5) Massive protests in the 1990s by Indian, Latin American and south-east Asian peasant farmers, indigenous groups and their supporters put the companies on the back foot, and they were reluctantly forced to shelve the technology after the UN called for a de-facto moratorium in 2000.
(6) In most developing countries abortion is illegal, and scrutiny of hospital records on complication (a 49% rate in a study in Latin America and 46% hospitalization) is a source.
(7) We propose to name these regulatory peptides 'deprimerones' (from Latin 'deprimere') and describe various fractions of them as chromatin deprimerones, messenger deprimerones, gene deprimerones (for specific genes).
(8) We conducted a cross-sectional survey simultaneously in six Latin American nations among people living near a river known to be polluted in each country.
(9) Other onlookers shivered, recalling Iglesias’s praise for Venezuela’s late president Hugo Chávez and fearing an eruption of Latin American-style populism in a country gripped by debt, austerity and unemployment.
(10) Löw’s side became the first from Europe to claim the trophy on Latin American soil courtesy of Götze’s fine 113th-minute finish from André Schürrle’s delivery.
(11) The following three corresponding arguments are put forward in support of the upgraded placebo-concept of "aura curae" (Latin: "air of care"; "unspecific healing context").
(12) This list gives the Latin first names of all 115 cardinals.
(13) Fifty per cent of the U.S. students with diarrhea had "severe" illness (greater than or equal to 10 unformed stools in first 48 hours) compared to 23% of the Latin Americans.
(14) The methodology of the first comprehensive multicenter study into risk factors of non-communicable chronic diseases carried out in Latin America is explained.
(15) Four to six groups of 4 x 4 Latin squares were used to estimate 80%, 100% and 120% standard preparations and the recovery rates were 95-106%.
(16) His eclectic approach to songwriting means he may not produce music that is typically Bahian or even Brazilian, but alongside the likes of Argentina's Juana Molina and Colombia's Bomba Estereo , he's redefining 21st-century Latin music.
(17) Most cephalometric analysis published to date are based on studies performed by orthodontists, focused on individuals in the growth and development stages, and based mainly on individuals with morphogenetic patterns different from those of the Latin prototype.
(18) Effects of dietary fat on milk composition, particularly milk N, were evaluated using 12 lactating Holstein cows in a replicated 4 X 4 Latin-square design.
(19) Further studies are needed to know whether these results could be extrapolated to studies on past diet and to non-Latin populations.
(20) Blacks made up 46% of the population; non-Latin whites, 40.1%; and Latin-Americans, 13.9%.
Lexicon
Definition:
(n.) A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.
Example Sentences:
(1) The period of 1924-1985 can be viewed as a repetition of the period between 1840-1890 in terms of the evolution of the place of pyromania in the lexicon of psychiatry, of its existence as a disease entity, and of its implications for personal responsibility for destructive acts.
(2) Three experiments were conducted to show that phonological encoding is typical for visually-presented letter strings, and that an interactive activation model with a phonological route to the mental lexicon accounts adequately for the word-superiority effect.
(3) Burnham said “a language of xenophobia has entered the lexicon” of British politics and that many politicians were flirting with racism.
(4) Spread of activation through the lexicon was measured in complementary automatic (low probability) priming experiments.
(5) A trauma registry has been created containing lexicons of terms arranged to foster the adoption of standardized and extensible terminology for the nature and mode of injury.
(6) The lexicon of conflict in a place such as Kashmir engenders normalisation of even the most ghastly thing.
(7) Results suggest that the morphological constituents of complex words are available in some word recognition tasks and that morphological knowledge is represented in the speaker's lexicon.
(8) For the svengali of mediocrity decreed that every year would culminate in the release of a single from the winner of his X Factor, and that this contribution to the lexicon would dutifully top the charts.
(9) The lexicon for most retailers runs from impulse buy to splurge to treat; they prefer us to wander the aisles with our eyes wide open and our minds shut tight.
(10) In addition, they had extreme difficulty in naming nonwords, which in terms of the dual-route model for word recognition indicates impairment in the indirect route to the lexicon.
(11) While previous research has demonstrated that the number of meanings associated with a word exerts a powerful influence on the internal lexicon of normals, the results of this study suggest that brain damage resulting in aphasia does not disrupt this semantic organization.
(12) The prime minister seemed to object to Marr raising the matter, saying this was "the sort of question that is all too often entering the lexicon of British politics".
(13) The “Great Cannon” has entered the cyberwar lexicon alongside the “Great Firewall of China” after a new tool for censorship in the nation was named and described by researchers from the University of Toronto.
(14) "Transphobic" even seems to have entered the lexicon at the Daily Mail, which is quite something.
(15) These features, it is argued, indicate the disconnection between two intact lexicons: the semantic and the phonological.
(16) The neighbourhood analyses provide a number of insights into the processes of auditory word recognition in children and the possible structural organization of words in the young child's mental lexicon.
(17) As an issue, poverty is to vanish, no longer a target or a word in the Conservative lexicon.
(18) It is suggested that this pattern is more easily explained in terms of compensatory mechanisms that access the reading lexicon than by use of the spelling system 'in reverse'.
(19) It is important that any expert witness or defendant be cognizant of this lexicon in order to avoid mistakes in or misinterpretations of their testimony.
(20) The Oxford boxing blue may have started to backtrack on his pledge , but with the term established in the diplomatic lexicon (well, David Cameron made a joke about it on Friday ) it might help delegates in Brisbane to know exactly what it means.