The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language.
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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.
Usage examples of "latin races".
The relatively grown-up Latin races -- whose own humour, he complained, always centred round sex and politics -- never cared for them.
Men of the Latin races were excitable and easily intimidated, according to his estimation.
The Americans went in for synchronic sweet and savoury, a sign of their salvation, unlike the timid Latin races.
On the whole, the Latin races have leaned more towards the former way of looking upon evil, as made up of ills and sins in the plural, removable in detail.
Certainly the Latin races, the Spanish, Italians and Greeks, suffer from no such inhibitions.
The Latin races, they like the formal garden, the gardens of the chateau of Versailles in miniature, and also of course they invented the potager.