a person who is a member of those peoples whose languages derived from Latin
<noun.person> [ adj ]
of or relating to the ancient Latins or the Latin language
<adj.pert> Latin verb conjugations
relating to people or countries speaking Romance languages
<adj.pert> Latin America
relating to languages derived from Latin
<adj.pert> Romance languages
of or relating to the ancient region of Latium
<adj.pert> Latin towns
Latin \Lat"in\, n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman.
2. The language of the ancient Romans.
3. An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin. [Obs.] --Ascham.
4. (Eccl.) A member of the Roman Catholic Church.
{Dog Latin}, barbarous Latin; a jargon in imitation of Latin; as, the log Latin of schoolboys.
{Late Latin}, {Low Latin}, terms used indifferently to designate the latest stages of the Latin language; low Latin (and, perhaps, late Latin also), including the barbarous coinages from the French, German, and other languages into a Latin form made after the Latin had become a dead language for the people.
{Law Latin}, that kind of late, or low, Latin, used in statutes and legal instruments; -- often barbarous.
Latin \Lat"in\, a. [F., fr. L. Latinus belonging to Latium, Latin, fr. Latium a country of Italy, in which Rome was situated. Cf. {Ladin}, Lateen sail, under {Lateen}.] 1. Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language.
2. Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin composition or idiom.
{Latin Church} (Eccl. Hist.), the Western or Roman Catholic Church, as distinct from the Greek or Eastern Church.
{Latin cross}. See Illust. 1 of {Cross}.
{Latin races}, a designation sometimes loosely given to certain nations, esp. the French, Spanish, and Italians, who speak languages principally derived from Latin.
{Latin Union}, an association of states, originally comprising France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy, which, in 1865, entered into a monetary agreement, providing for an identity in the weight and fineness of the gold and silver coins of those countries, and for the amounts of each kind of coinage by each. Greece, Servia, Roumania, and Spain subsequently joined the Union.
Latin \Lat"in\, v. t. To write or speak in Latin; to turn or render into Latin. [Obs.] --Fuller.
Disney World in Florida is famed for its marketing to Latin America.
He has been transferring money in his general portfolio from south-east Asia to Latin America for the past four months.
No country in the hemisphere gets more U.S. assistance than El Salvador, which President Reagan has held up as an example of success in Washington's avowed policy of fostering democracy in Latin America.
The Reagan administration looked high and low for Latin American support for the Nicaraguan Contras but almost always came up empty-handed.
President Fidel Castro of Cuba, in his first trip to South America in 17 years, was among seven Latin American and European presidents at the ceremony.
But her Latin lothario has seriously misled her all these years, both about his love for her and about the true circumstances of that terrible drowning. Mickey hides in the trunk from police, which Augusta promptly dumps overboard.
Growth in Latin America is projected at only 10 percent because output is expected to fall in Brazil.
Salvat was founded more than 100 years ago in Barcelona and employs about 1,500 people, including 500 in Spain and the rest in 15 other countries, mostly in Latin America.
Bankers now seem to agree that economic growth must precede repayment, and that much of the debt is unpayable, as Latin leaders have argued for years.
The spokesman said that Comerica still feels confident that its $167 million in Latin American loans will be repaid because the loans are mostly to government agencies in Mexico and Venezuela.
Income is more concentrated in the hands of the rich in Latin America than in any other region of the world.
And there is the multi-ethnic Minneapolis of Untamed Heart where romance-bitten Latin waitresses jabber tirelessly about life and love. Multi-ethnicity is a la mode today.
The obstacle Chile faces in Washington is not protectionism, but indifference. An FTA with Chile would let Washington signal to the rest of Latin America that it supports democratic regimes with open economies.
Debt relief also removes whatever discipline Brazil and the other Latin debtors are now under to make the free-market economic reforms that are essential to attracting capital and restoring robust growth.
One of the State Department's most experienced Latin America hands is in line to become ambassador to the Organization of American States as part of an administration effort to revitalize that institution, according to U.S. officials.
Much of the interest in the identity of Abrams' successor stems from the uncertainty about the course Bush will follow on the two dominant hemispheric issues: Central America and Latin America's $420 billion foreign debt.
Key portions of that pact were reached over the weekend as Brazil, Latin America's largest debtor nation, agreed to make a $700 million interest payment to make it current for all of 1988 and the last quarter of 1987.
Latin America, for example, is running low on military dictators, long a favorite target of Democrats.
Because of an error by the Associated Press, the percentage figure was misstated in an earlier article about Latin American countries struggling with inflation.
"The people of Latin America will be more comfortable if the United States gets its troops home as soon as possible and helps Panama carry out an election," said one Latin diplomatic source in Washington.
"The people of Latin America will be more comfortable if the United States gets its troops home as soon as possible and helps Panama carry out an election," said one Latin diplomatic source in Washington.
The U.S. in particular recalls the late 1970s when a Latin American producer cartel, known as the "Bogota Group," played havoc with coffee importers by creating artificial shortages and driving prices up.
Noriega was on a collision course with the U.S., BCCI officials began looking for a more secure haven in Latin America.
Debt relief would help restore economic growth in Latin America.
In 1981, as deputy director of international affairs in the Treasury, he faced the challenge of managing France's interests in the Latin American debt crisis.
Brazil, one of the more restrictive countries in Pan Am's Latin American division, recently opened its skies by agreeing to allow 15 additional flights from the U.S. to Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in 1992 and 1993.
A FUND with a target of Dollars 500m (Pounds 324.6m) has been launched in the US to seek capital from investment institutions for private sector power projects in Latin America.
Once in the zone, the products are stored, repackaged, taken apart or put together and sent on to buyers mostly in Latin America.
Latin American Securities comments that sentiment was encouraged by the successful renegotiation of the annual wage and price accord which removed uncertainty over exchange rate and interest rate fluctuation.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz took time off Sunday from his busy 10-day Latin American tour for golf and a relaxing boat ride.