WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
-lat- ,root.
-lat-1 ,root.
- Geography-lat- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "carried.'' This meaning is found in such words as: ablative, collate, correlate, dilatory, elated, oblate, prelate, relate, relative, superlative.
-lat-1 ,root.
- -lat- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "line;
side.'' This meaning is found in such words as: bilateral, collateral, dilate, equilateral, lateral, latitude, quadrilateral, trilateral, unilateral.
- Geographylatitude.
'-lat-' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Biblical Latin
- Bravais lattice
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Classical Latin
- Deus
- Four Corners
- Lat.
- Late Latin
- ad hoc
- ad libitum
- ad rem
- al-Lat
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- anti-Latin
- anti-Latinism
- apparatus criticus
- casus belli
- caveat emptor
- celestial latitude
- civitas
- collegium musicum
- crystal lattice
- culpa
- curriculum vitae
- custodes
- custos
- de gratia
- de jure
- de-Latinization
- decimus
- dilate
- diploma
- dog Latin
- epulo
- galactic latitude
- half-Latinized
- half-latticed
- hog Latin
- horse latitudes
- incipit
- inter se
- irrational
- jura
- jus
- lapsus
- lat
- lat.
- latency
- lateral
- lateral bud