latus

From Latin latus (“side”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɪ.təs/
• Rhymes: -eɪtəs

latus (plural latera)

1. (medicine) Flank.

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

Earlier *tlātus, from Proto-Italic *tlātos, from Proto-Indo-European *tl̥h₂tós, from the root *telh₂-. Compare Ancient Greek τλάντος (tlántos, “bearing, suffering”), τολμέω (tolméō, “to carry, bear”), τελαμών (telamṓn, “broad strap for bearing something”), Ἄτλας (Átlas, “the 'Bearer' of Heaven”), Lithuanian tiltas (“bridge”), Sanskrit तुला (tulā, “balance”), तुलयति (tulayati, “lifts up, weighs”), Latin tollō (“to bear, support”), tulī (“I bore”), tolerō (“bear, endure”), tellūs (“bearing earth”), Old English þolian (“to endure”) (English thole), Old Armenian թողում (tʿołum, “I allow”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.tus/, [ˈɫaː.tʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.tus/, [ˈlaː.tus]

lātus m (feminine lāta, neuter lātum); first/second declension

• perfect participle of ferō
  1. borne, carried, having been carried
  2. suffered, endured, having been suffered
  3. reported, having been reported

First/second declension.

From earlier *stlātus, from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to stretch out, extend, spread”) or *stelh₃- (“broad”). Also compare stlatta.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.tus/, [ˈɫaː.tʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.tus/, [ˈlaː.tus]

lātus (feminine lāta, neuter lātum); first/second declension

1. wide, broad
2. spacious, extensive

First/second declension.

• comparative: lātior, superlative: lātissimus

• sensū latō

Of uncertain origin. Some indicate Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”) or *stelh₃- (“broad”) (in which case later would be its masculine form).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.tus/, [ˈɫa.tʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.tus/, [ˈlaː.tus]

latus n (genitive lateris); third declension

1. side, flank

Third declension neuter.

• laterālis
• quadrilaterus

• 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to have good lungs: bonis lateribus esse
    
  • to place the cavalry on the wings: equites ad latera disponere (B. G. 6. 8)
    
  • to fall upon the enemy's flank: in latus hostium incurrere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be always at a person's side: ab alicuius latere non discedere
    
  • (ambiguous) to belong to the king's bodyguard: a latere regis esse
    
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

latus m

1. accusative plural form of lats