Latin
English - Vietnamese dictionary
latin /'lætin/- danh từ
- người La-tinh
- tiếng La-tinh
- classical latin: tiếng La-tinh cổ điển
- modern latin: tiếng La-tinh hiện đại
- thieves' latin: tiếng lóng của bọn ăn cắp
- tính từ
- (thuộc) Rô-ma (xưa gọi là Latium)
- (thuộc) La-tinh
- the latin peoples: những dân tộc thuộc nền văn hoá La-tinh (như Pháp, Tây-ban-nha, Y, Bồ-ddào-nha, Ru-ma-ni)
- latin America: Châu mỹ La-tinh
- latin Quarter: xóm La-tinh (khu các trường đại học, có nhiều sinh viên ở Pa-ri)
Advanced English dictionary
noun, adjective+ noun
1 [U] the language of ancient Rome and the official language of its empire
2 [C] a person from countries where languages that have developed from Latin, such as Spanish, Portuguese, Italian or French, are spoken
+ adjective
1 of or in the Latin language: Latin poetry
2 connected with or typical of the countries or peoples using languages developed from Latin, such as Spanish, Portuguese, Italian or French: a Latin temperament
Collocation
ADJ.
classical | medieval
More information about LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE:
excellent, fluent, good, perfect ~
He speaks fluent Japanese.
bad, broken, poor~
I got by with broken Chinese and sign language.
colloquial, idiomatic, non-standard, pidgin, standard ~
The inhabitants speak a kind of pidgin Spanish.
spoken, written ~
My spoken Polish is better than my written Polish.
business ~
She is doing a course in business English.
original ~
The fable is translated from the original French.
know, read, speak, understand, use ~
I am more comfortable using Spanish, if you don't mind.
be fluent in ~
She was fluent in German, Urdu and Swahili.
do, learn ~
I did German at school but I've forgotten most of it. I've been learning Arabic for four years.
improve, practise ~
I spent a month in Rome to improve my Italian.
master ~
I never really mastered Latin.
translate sth into ~
He has translated her latest book into Korean.
~ class, course, lesson
I'm late for my Russian class.
~ interpreter, speaker, a speaker of ~
the need for Gujarati interpreters
a command/knowledge of ~
He has a poor command of English.
in ~
What is ‘apple’ in French?He addressed me in his best Portuguese.
Concise dictionary
Latins'lætɪnnoun
+any dialect of the language of ancient Rome
+an inhabitant of ancient Latium
+a person who is a member of those peoples whose languages derived from Latin
adj.
+of or relating to the ancient Latins or the Latin language
+having or resembling the psychology or temper characteristic of people of Latin America
+relating to people or countries speaking Romance languages
+relating to languages derived from Latin
+of or relating to the ancient region of Latium
