lateinisch
German, adjective
lateinisch is spelled L-A-T-E-I-N-I-S-C-H (10 letters) and appears 2.9 times per million words in written German, the 18,511th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lateinisch is a German adjective meaning “Latin (of or pertaining to the Latin language)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Lateinisch is a different word: “Latin”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zur Sprache Latein gehörig”.
What does lateinisch mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Latin (of or pertaining to the Latin language)
- 2
Latin (of or pertaining to the Latin script)
- 3
SwitzerlandLatin, Romance (of or pertaining to any speaker of a Romance language, e.g. the French, Italian, Romansh, Spanish or Portuguese peoples)
adjective
- 1
obsoleteLatin
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. zur Sprache Latein gehörig 2. zum lateinischen Alphabet gehörig, im lateinischen Alphabet geschrieben 3. fachlich abgehoben, übertrieben genau nehmend und dabei unpraktisch
noun: 1. anderes Wort für die Sprache Latein 2. das lateinische Alphabet
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 lateinisch
- lateinischer masculine nominative singular
- lateinische feminine nominative singular
- lateinisches neuter nominative singular
- lateinischen genitive masculine singular
- lateinischem dative masculine singular
- der lateinische definite includes-article masculine
- die lateinische definite feminine includes-article
- das lateinische definite includes-article neuter
- die lateinischen definite includes-article nominative
- des lateinischen definite genitive includes-article
- der lateinischen definite feminine genitive
- dem lateinischen dative definite includes-article
- den lateinischen dative definite includes-article
- lat. abbreviation
- l. abbreviation
- Latein variant
- la abbreviation
- lat abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to lateinisch
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lateinisch in German?
lateinisch appears 2.9 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).