Latiner

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1. historicalSynonym of interpreter.

   ... alle weys fynden Men Latyneres to go with hem in the Contrees, and ferthere bezonde, in to tyme that Men conne the Langage.

   1725, The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundeville, Kt..., page 58

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   Latimer is the Corruption of Latiner, it ſignifies he that interprets Latine, and though he interpreted French, Spaniſh, or Italian, he was call'd the King's Latiner, that is, the King's Interpreter.

   1689, John Selden, Table-Talk, page 64

   The Dictionary says that the meanings of the two forms are quite distinct and invariable; that Latiner is, to put it shortly, a Latin scholar, that Latimer is an interpreter, and that Latiner is never used in that sense. In the Hilary term of 34 Henry VI a case was heard to which a foreigner who could not speak our language was a party. He was allowed to engage the services of an interpreter, and that interpreter is plainly written down as a Latiner and not as a Latimer. That is an example of a certain emendation that would have been made in the Dictionary if the Year Books had been consulted.

   1925, William Craddock Bolland, A Manual of Year Book Studies, page 104

   Synonyms: interpreter

2. colloquialobsoleteA person who speaks and reads Latin, particularly (historical) an early modern student or scholar.

   "But is he not a very good preacher?" "Au aye, beloike he be a goodish preacher, but no Latiner, measter, no Latiner."

   1853, Xavier Donald MacLeod, The Bloodstone, page 56

   Synonyms: Latinophone

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1. A surname.