Meaning

2 senses
  1. (historical)Synonym of interpreter.

  2. (colloquial, obsolete)A person who speaks and reads Latin, particularly (historical) an early modern student or scholar.

Origin

From Middle English latyner, latynier (also latymer), from Anglo-Norman latimer, from Old

From Middle English latyner, latynier (also latymer), from Anglo-Norman latimer, from Old French latinier, latimier, etc., from Latin latinārius, from lingua Latina + -ārius (“-ary”). Compare Old English Lǣdenware (“a Latin-speaker, Roman”). Doublet of latimer.

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