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And on it it says, in Latin: (Latin) "The word of God is the seed and the sower of the seed is Christ."

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  1. noun The Indo-European language of the ancient Latins and Romans and the most important cultural language of western Europe until the end of the 17th century.
  2. noun The Latin language and literature from the end of the third century B.C. to the end of the second century A.D.
  3. noun A member of a Latin people, especially a native or inhabitant of Latin America.
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  • And on it it says, in Latin: (Latin) "The word of God is the seed and the sower of the seed is Christ." —  Dan Dennett's response to Rick Warren
  • Now many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. —  Latest Articles
  • In the years since its inception in 2002, this local multicultural band has definitely succeeded in its quest to create what it defines as a Latin jam-band sound. —  Miami New Times | Complete Issue
  • Moreover, he gathered together at a vast cost a large number of the best and rarest books in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, all of which he adorned with gold and silver, esteeming them the chiefest treasure of his spacious palace." —  New Italian sketches
  • Baoardo says, that she gave him a book, in which she had written a few words in Greek, Latin, and English La Greca era tale. —  The Reign of Mary Tudor
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  1. Middle English, from Old French and from Old English lǣden, both from Latin Latīnus, from Latium, an ancient country of west-central Italy.

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  1. Early modern English also Latine, Laten; from Middle English Latin, Latyn (cf. Anglo-Saxon læden, leden, Latin, language, speech, Middle English leden, speech: see leden), from Old French latin, French latin = Spanish Portuguese Italian latino = Dutch latijn = German latein = Danish Swedish latin = Irish Gaelic laidionn, n. (cf. Dutch latijnsch = German lateinisch = Danish Swedish latinsk, adjective), = Old Bulgarian latinŭ = Polish lacina = Russian latuinŭ = Greek Λατῑνος, Latin (ἡ Λατίνη φωνή) or διάλεκτος, the Latin language), from Latin Latinus, belonging to Latium (lingua Latina, as a noun, Latinum, the Latin language), from Latium, a country of Italy. A popular etymology connected the name with latere, lie hid (see latent), and made Saturn ‘lie hid’ here from his son.
  2. from Latin, a.
 

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