Latinate
/ˈlætɪnət/adjective
Latinate is an adjective meaning “Of or derived from Latin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-A-T-I-N-A-T-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Latinate mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or derived from Latin.
- 2
Characteristic of or pertaining to Latin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Latinate?
- UK /ˈlætɪnət/
- US /ˈlætɪnət/
- US [ˈlæʔənəʔ]
Latinate has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Latinate
- more Latinate comparative
- most Latinate superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Latinate?
Latinate appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Latinate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | latinizante, latinista, latinado |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does Latinate come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin latināt(us) (“Latin-speaking”), from Latin latīnō (“to speak Latin”). By surface analysis, Latin + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).