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- Latin · derived fromlatinārius
- Old French · derived fromlatinier
- Anglo-Norman · derived fromlatimer
- Middle English · inherited fromlatyner
- English todayLatiner
From Middle English latyner, latynier (also latymer), from Anglo-Norman latimer, from Old French latinier, latimier, etc., from Latin latinārius, from lingua Latina + -ārius (“-ary”). Compare Old English Lǣdenware (“a Latin-speaker, Roman”). Doublet of latimer.
Words from the same roots
Latinlatinārius all →
latimer
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.