Lat
German, noun
Lat is spelled L-A-T (3 letters) and appears 5.6 times per million words in written German, the 11,196th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lat is a German masculine noun meaning “lat, latissimus dorsi” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, lat. is a different word: “abbreviation of lateinisch”.
What does Lat mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinelat, latissimus dorsi
adjective
- 1
abbreviation of lateinisch
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
abbreviation: 1. lateinisch
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Lat
- Lats genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Lat in German?
Lat appears 5.6 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).