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Latin is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Considered a dead language, Latin was originally spoken in Latium, the lower Tiber area around Rome. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. Even after the fall of Western Rome, Latin remained the ...
Here you will find four online Latin dictionaries; Lewis & Short’s Latin-English dictionary, Smith & Hall’s English-Latin dictionary, Döderlein’s Handbook of Latin synonyms, and Ogilvie’s treatise on Latin synonyms, Horae Latinae. We have gathered them in the same place so that you can freely use and search them all at once while reading, learning ...
Latin alphabet, the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world, the standard script of the English language and the languages of most of Europe and those areas settled by Europeans. Developed from the Etruscan alphabet at some time before 600 bce, it can be traced through Etruscan, Greek, and Phoenician scripts to the North Semitic alphabet used in Syria and Palestine about 1100 bce.
