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Example sentences for: latin

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

He didn't pull a Dan Quayle and brag about reading Plato in the original Latin.
Pencil (as well as penicillin ) was borrowed from Latin pēnicillus `paintbrush,' a diminutive of peniculus `brush,' which is also a diminutive of penis , which in Latin (also) meant `tail.
Latin America as a whole contributed only 5.45% to the total number of scientific publications in these ten years (RICYT 2002).
Jö;ns Jakob Berzelius, who discovered selenium (from Greek selene , moon) in 1818 and named silicon (from Latin silex , flint) in 1824, compiled the first systematic table of the elements in 1828, arranged according to units of atomic weight one twelfth of the heft of the commonest isotope of carbon.
The confusion can be avoided by using the moth's Latin name which was established two hundred years ago by a natural scientist named Carolus Linnaeus, and by the two-name namers who followed after him.