Example sentences for: latin

How can you use “latin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Transformed by the Romans into the Latin alphabet, it has since become the most widely used writing system ever in the history of mankind.

  • Surname was indeed an adaptation of French surnom , but the Normans called it that because in Latin it was a super nomen , an `extra name.

  • Would Mellinkoff banish such useful words as heretofore, theretofore, hereto, and therefor ? Would we abandon the subjunctive mood, adverbs, Latin idioms, bon mots, and the like?

  • Any more pedantic suggestion being absent, I take the bit between the teeth to suggest that the above word, characterized by the OED as an “onomatopoeic representation of unmeaning chatter,” may well be a jocular rendering of Latin Flebiliter gemens , itself an almost facetious lament meaning something like `Woe is me!

  • It is derived from the Latin verb clausere , meaning "to close," which also gives us the enclosed architectural space cloister , the enclosed syntactical space clause , and the fear of enclosed space altogether, claustrophobia .


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