laten

late +‎ -en

laten (third-person singular simple present latens, present participle latening, simple past and past participle latened)

1. (intransitive) To grow late; become later.
   • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, London: Faber and Faber, page 142 (Faber Paper 1972 edition):

     The afternoon was latening, but there was, I think, a quietly commemorative glow from the west.

   • 1930, Alec Waugh, Three Score and Ten, page 3:

     Not even when the hour latened, when the courts became filled with boys returning from their holidays, when the moment for saying "Good-bye" was only a few minutes distant, not even then did his high spirits leave him.

   • 2011, Catherine Winchester, Northern Light

     Then he returned to Margaret's side and sat with her for the rest of the evening, insisting that she rest. As the hour latened he kissed her on the cheek and got up to leave.

• Antle, ental, leant

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːtə(n)/

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• Rhymes: -aːtən

From Middle Dutch laten, from Old Dutch lātan, from Proto-Germanic *lētaną.

laten

1. (copulative) to leave, to cause to remain in the same position or state

   Ze lieten het zo.

   They left it like that.

2. (auxiliary, with object) to leave, to allow to remain/continue to

   Laat dat daar maar liggen.

   Just leave it lying there.

3. (auxiliary, with object) to let, to allow to

   Ze lieten hem gaan.

   They let him go.

4. (auxiliary, with object) to cause to, to make; Creates a causative phrase.

   Hij liet zijn spullen op de grond vallen.

   He dropped his stuff on the ground.

5. (transitive) to not do, to refrain from

   Laat dat!

   Don't do that!

• doen en laten
• achterlaten
• aflaten
• binnenlaten
• buitenlaten
• doorlaten
• loslaten
• nalaten
• neerlaten
• oplaten
• toelaten
• uitlaten
• verlaten
• vrijlaten
• weglaten
• laatkoers
• laatprijs
• laatkoers
• laatprijs

• Afrikaans: laat

See the etymology of the main entry.

laten

1. Plural form of laat (“serf”)

• talen

From Old Saxon latan, from Proto-Germanic *lētaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁d-.

laten (past singular leet, past participle laten, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. (auxiliary, with an infinitive) to allow; to permit; to let
2. (auxiliary, with an infinitive) to have someone (do something); to have (something done); to make (something happen); to cause (something to be done)

   wat maken laten ― to have something done

   een wat doon laten ― to have someone do something

3. (transitive) to let; to leave
4. (transitive) to stop (something); to quit; to refrain from; to help doing (something)
5. (intransitive) to cease; to desist

From Old Dutch lātan, from Proto-Germanic *lētaną.

lâten

1. to leave, to cause to remain in the same position or state
2. to release
3. to let, to lose (of bodily fluids)
4. to leave, to let remain, to leave behind
5. to leave, to depart from
6. to not do, to refrain from
7. to stop doing, to cease doing
8. (auxiliary) to allow, to not prevent
9. (auxiliary) to cause to, to make

• Dutch: laten
  • Afrikaans: laat
• Limburgish: laote

• “laten”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “laten (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

laten

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of latir.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of latir.

laten

1. definite singular of lat