Latin (disambiguation)

Latin is an Italic language, originally spoken in ancient Rome and its empire.

Latin can also refer to:

Language and languages

• The Roman or Latin alphabet, which became the basic script used by most European languages
• Wheelock's Latin, a textbook for teaching the Latin language
• Dog Latin, a whimsical pseudo-language utilizing Latin elements
• Macaronic Latin, the basis for defining Macaronic language, a mixed language
• Pig Latin, a whimsical pseudo-language based on sound alternations in English
• Latino sine Flexione, an artificial language based on Latin but without inflections
• Latinism, the use of words from or like Latin
• Latinization (literature), the alteration of foreign words into Latin-like ones

Ethnic groups

• Latins (Italic tribe), a people inhabiting ancient Italy
• Various people throughout history who have been called Latins

People with the surname Latin

• Denis Latin (b. 1966), Croatian television host
• Ivo Latin (1929–2002), former speaker of the Parliament of Croatia and Mayor of Zagreb

Music

• Latin dance, a division of ballroom dancing
• Latin jazz, jazz based on the rhythms of and similar to those of Latin dance
• "Latin", the fourth movement of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells 2003 album
• Latin (album), an album by the band Holy Fuck

Other

• Latin honors, expressions in Latin of academic distinction placed on a new degree
• Latin square, a square array in which each symbol appears exactly once in each row and each column
• Latin Rite, the principal rite within the Roman Catholic Church as distinguished, for example, from Orthodox Christianity

See also

• All pages beginning with "Latin"
• Ladin
• Lateen
• Latino (disambiguation)
• Latina (disambiguation)
• Latin Quarter (disambiguation)
• Lattin (disambiguation)
• Latinus