Latin

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Indo-European language Italic language ancient language classical language language liturgical language

Latin is an ancient Italic language of the Roman Empire that profoundly shaped the vocabulary, grammar, and development of many European languages and scholarly traditions.

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Statements (78)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Indo-European language → Italic language → ancient language → classical language → language → liturgical language →
classicalAuthors	Caesar → Cicero → Horace → Livy → Ovid → Tacitus → Virgil →
descendant	Romance languages →
developedFrom	Old Latin → Proto-Italic →
family	Italic branch of the Indo-European language family →
grammarFeature	case system for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives → grammatical gender → highly inflected morphology → synthetic verb forms → verb conjugations →
hasStage	Classical Latin → Contemporary Latin → Late Latin → Medieval Latin → New Latin → Old Latin → Renaissance Latin → Vulgar Latin →
historicalCenter	Rome →
influenced	Catalan → Dutch → English → French → German → Italian → Portuguese → Romanian → Spanish → many European languages →
ISO639-1Code	la →
ISO639-2Code	lat →
ISO639-3Code	lat →
lexicalInfluence	biological nomenclature → legal terminology → medical terminology → philosophical terminology → scientific terminology → taxonomic nomenclature → theological terminology →
officialStatus	official language of Vatican City → official language of the Holy See →
originatedIn	Italian Peninsula → Latium →
orthographicFeature	use of macrons in pedagogical texts to mark vowel length →
phonologicalFeature	consonant length (gemination) → quantitative vowel length distinction →
regionHistoricallySpoken	Western Mediterranean → parts of Europe, North Africa, and the Near East under Roman rule →
scriptDirection	left-to-right →
standardPronunciationModels	Classical pronunciation → Ecclesiastical pronunciation →
status	no native speakers in everyday use → used as a learned language →
taughtAs	classical language in schools and universities →
timePeriod	Roman Empire → Roman Republic → ancient Rome →
usedAs	language of diplomacy in early modern Europe → language of scholarship in medieval Europe → liturgical language of the Roman Catholic Church →
usedBy	Romans →
usedIn	Roman administration → Roman education → Roman law → Roman literature →
writingSystem	Latin alphabet →

Referenced by (312)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Augustine of Hippo → Britannia (Roman province) → Byzantine Egypt → Calvaria → Carolingian Renaissance → Council of Basel → County of Cerdanya → Cum negotium → Drusilla → E pluribus unum → Excelsior → Imperial Diet → In eminenti → In limine sapientiae → Late Roman Republic → Livia Orestilla ("Latin (cultural-linguistic context)") → Marcian → Mark Antony → Mass → Optimates → Quo primum → Republic of Genoa → Roman Breviary → Roman Ritual → Roman navy → Scientia vincere tenebras → Semper → Seventeen Provinces → Treaty of Perth → Treaty of Ryswick → Usus antiquior → Vetus Ordo →	language
Anthony → Anton → Christian ("Latin language") → Clara → César ("Latin language") → Diana ("Latin language") → Frances → Gillian ("Latin language") → Lara → Laurence ("Latin language") → Marcus ("Latin language") → Marian ("Latin language") → Maurice ("Latin language") → Maximilian ("Latin language") → Nora ("Latin language") → Nora → Olivia ("Latin language") → Priscilla ("Latin language") → Sebastian → Silvio ("Latin language") → Sylvia ("Latin language") → Terence ("Latin language") → Victor → Vincent ("Latin language") →	hasOrigin
Boethius → Cicero → Frans van Schooten → Friedrich August Wolf → Hyginus → John Gower → Karol Wojtyła → Lorenzo Valla → Merlin → Ovid → Paul V → Pelagius → Peter II of Aragon → Pico della Mirandola → René Descartes → Robert de Sorbon → Saint Benedict of Nursia → Simon van Leeuwen → Sixtus V → Slovak national revival → Tertullian → Theodor Mommsen → Vitruvius →	languageOfWorkOrName
Acadia University → Florida State University → Hope College → Leo the Lion → Marymount University → Order of the Red Eagle → Order of the Thistle → Parachute Regiment → Reformation Wall → Royal New Zealand Air Force → Rutland → The Household Cavalry → Transylvania University → U.S. Army Special Operations Command → Wake Forest University → modern Olympic Games →	mottoLanguage
Africa Proconsularis → Apostolic Camera → Aquincum → Baiae → Caffa → Early Christians → Governorate of Vatican City State → Herodian period → Illyricum → Moesia → Naissus → Salona → Stephen Langton → Thagaste → Vatican City institutions →	languageUsed
Celtiberian → Common Albanian ("Latin language") → Emilian-Romagnol ("Latin language") → French → Koine Greek → Law French → Medieval Greek → Middle English → Middle French → Middle High German → Old English → Osco-Umbrian languages ("Latin language") → Scots ("Latin language") → Western Christianity ("Latin language") →	influencedBy
Antium → Caligula → Charles XII of Sweden → Galatia → James IV of Scotland → Licinius → Longshanks → Pannonia → Raetia → Sir James Douglas → Titus → Vespasian → Willem van Nassau →	languageSpoken
Anno Mundi → Cupid → Cupid → Helvetia → Hydrastidaceae → Liber → Papaver → Prisca → Regia → Roman eagle → Saint Dominic → Vulcan →	languageOfName
Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith → Grand Duchy of Lithuania → Kingdom of Aragon → Kingdom of Hungary → Kingdom of Jerusalem → Kingdom of Navarre → Kingdom of Sicily → Papal States → Roman Kingdom → Roman Republic → Vatican City →	officialLanguage
Celtiberian → Etruscan language ("Latin language") → Oscan language ("Latin language") → Osco-Umbrian languages ("Latin language") → Paelignian language ("Latin language") → Sabellian → Sabellic languages ("Latin language") → Sicel → Venetic language →	replacedBy
Bryanston School → Edgbaston High School → House of Cavendish → International Olympic movement → Lund University → Shrewsbury School → University of Arkansas →	hasMottoLanguage
Arausio → Guild of Corpus Christi → Herodian dynasty ("Latin language") → Kingdom of Croatia ("Latin language") → Papacy → Western Roman Empire →	hasLanguage
Corsu → Ladin language → Sermo Vulgaris ("Classical Latin") → Vulgar Latin ("Old Latin") → Vulgar Latin ("Classical Latin") →	developedFrom
BEL → COL$ → NPR → The Lone Star → UUWW →	script
Croatian → Dutch → Lombard → Piedmontese →	hasLexicalInfluenceFrom
Basque → Breton → Hungarian language → Modern Irish →	hasLoanwordsFrom
Poland-Lithuania in the early modern period → Pope → Principality of Catalonia → Society of Jesus →	hasOfficialLanguage
Sabellian → Vulgar Latin ("Classical Latin") → Vulgar Latin ("Literary Latin") →	distinctFrom
Claudia → Paweł → Émile →	etymologicalOriginLanguage
Chiusi → Cyrenaica → Tyre →	historicalLanguage
Latino-Faliscan languages ("Latin language") → Oscan language ("Latin language") →	closelyRelatedTo
Sermo Vulgaris ("Classical Latin") → Sermo Vulgaris ("Literary Latin") →	contrastWith
Max → Pauline →	etymologicalOrigin
December → Olivia →	etymologyLanguage
Jèrriais → Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) →	hasAncestor
Claudius → Sebastian →	hasLanguageOfOrigin
Latin ("Old Latin") → Latin ("Classical Latin") →	hasStage
Ancyra → Tarsus →	languageHistoricallySpoken
Northern Renaissance → Ottonian Renaissance →	languageOfScholarship
Christianization of Europe → Roman–Germanic wars →	languageOfSources
Hans Christian Ørsted → Nicolás Bobadilla →	languageSpokenWrittenOrSigned
Mary I of England → Thomas Jefferson →	languagesSpoken
New Brunswick → Newfoundland and Labrador →	officialMottoLanguage
Sabellian → South Picene language ("Latin language") →	relatedTo
Proto-Italic →	ancestorOf
Greco-Roman mythology →	associatedWithLanguage
Google Translate →	availableLanguage
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth →	chanceryLanguage
Sabine language ("Latin language") →	coexistedWith
Popular Latin ("Classical Latin") →	contrastedWith
Latins ("Latin language") →	culturalLegacy
Dalmatian language →	derivedFrom
.ch →	derivedFromLanguage
Sebastián →	etymologicalLanguageOfOrigin
Clementina →	etymologicalRootLanguage
French →	follows
Proto-Indo-European →	hasDescendant
Fennoscandia →	hasEtymologyLanguage
Finnish language ("Latin language") →	hasHistoricalWritingInfluenceFrom
Mardasson Memorial →	hasInscriptionLanguage
Renaissance →	hasLanguageContext
Fall of the Western Roman Empire →	hasLanguageOfSources
Aloysia →	hasLanguageUsage
Venetic language →	hasLexicalSimilarityWith
Albanian language →	hasLoanwordSource
Romanians →	historicalLanguageInfluence
Latino-Faliscan languages ("Latin language") →	includesMostInfluentialMember
Etruscan language ("Latin language") →	influenced
Gaulish →	languageContactWith
Christianization of the Franks →	languageContext
Asia Minor →	languageInHistory
Lixus →	languageInUse
First Crusade →	languageOf
Canon law →	languageOfClassicalStudy
Louis the Pious →	languageOfCourt
Hermeticism →	languageOfEarlyTexts
Mission San José →	languageOfLiturgicalTradition
Skull and Bones →	languageOfMotto
Apostolic Penitentiary →	languageOfOperation
Cartesianism →	languageOfOrigin
Dominate →	languageOfTerm
Angelus prayer →	languageOfTitle
Litany →	languageOfUse
Consubstantiation →	languageOrigin
Roger II of Sicily →	languagesSpokenWritten
Herman Boerhaave →	languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned
Kyrenaikē →	languageUsedHistorically
Curia Cornelia →	languageUsedWithin
Paleo-Latin alphabet ("Old Latin") →	languageWritten
Gaul →	laterAdministrativeLanguage
Populonia →	laterLanguage
Clusium →	laterLanguageUsed
Early Modern Dutch →	lexicalBorrowingFrom
Kabyle →	lexicalInfluenceFrom
Pauletta →	meaningOriginLanguage
November →	nameOriginLanguage
Mare Liberum →	originalLanguage
Medieval Latin →	parentLanguage
Old Latin ("Latin language") →	partOf
Genevan Academy →	primaryLanguageOfInstruction
Tridentine Mass ("Ecclesiastical Latin") →	primaryLiturgicalLanguage
Umbrians ("Latin language") →	relatedLanguage
Latin West →	scholarlyLanguage
Pelagianism →	sourceLanguageName
Latins ("Latin language") →	spoke
Oklahoma →	stateMottoLanguage
Jerome →	translatedInto
United in diversity →	translationLanguage
Usus antiquior →	typicalLanguageOfReadings
Eero →	typicalScript
Old Italic script ("Paleo-Latin") →	usedForLanguage
States General of the Habsburg Netherlands →	usedLanguage
Este →	usedLanguageHistorically
Latin Rite →	usesLiturgicalLanguage
Renaissance humanism →	valuedLanguage