latius

See also: Latius

Latin

Adverb

lātius

1. comparative degree of lātē
   • 7th c., Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae IX.I:

     Latīnās autem linguās quattuor esse quīdam dīxērunt, id est prīscam, latīnam, rōmānam, mixtam. [...] Mixta, quae, post imperium lātius prōmōtum, semel cum mōribus et hominibus in cīvitātem rōmānam inrūpit, integritātem verbī per barbarismōs et soloecismōs corrumpēns.

     Some, however, say that there are four Latin languages: Ancient, Latin, Roman and Mixed. [...] Mixed [Latin], which, after the Empire expanded more broadly, rushed into Roman civilization along with [new] customs and people, corrupting the integrity of speech with barbarisms and solecisms.

2. lately, of late

References

• “latius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• latius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the word has a more extended signification: vocabulum latius patet