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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 235–200 BC, Naevius|origins=la lātus}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lātē''' (comparative lātius, superlative lātissimē)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|lātus|-ē|t1=broad, wide]], the adverb of that adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives [[m|la|lātus]] from [[itc-pro|*slāto-]], whose further origin is uncertain: an older view links it with [[grc|στέλλω|tr=stéllō|t=to make ready, dispatch]] and [[cu|стьлати|tr=stĭlati|t=to spread]], but the root of these is now reconstructed without the final laryngeal it would need; he also considers [[sga|con·slá|t=goes away]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Naevius has ''lātē longēque trānstrōs nostrōs fervere'', “our thwarts are seething far and wide”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Ennius has ''lātē specus intus patēbat'', “the cave stretched far inside”, and Plautus uses the comparative ''lātius''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Lātē'' is “over a large area, widely”, often in ''longē lātēque'' “far and wide” (Cicero: ''vagābitur tuum nōmen longē atque lātē'', “your name will travel far and wide”), and with measurements “in breadth”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Figuratively it is “extensively, over a wide range”, in ''lātē patēre'' “to have a wide application”, and of speaking or writing “at length, copiously”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Grammarians use it of a full, broad pronunciation.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “broadly, extensively, widely”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius: ''lātē longēque''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius: ''lātē specus intus patēbat''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero: ''longē atque lātē''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|widely]], over a large area;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) ''longē lātēque'': far and wide.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # In breadth (with measurements).^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|extensively]], over a wide range;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) at length, copiously (of speaking or writing).^(OLD 2012)

+ # Fully, broadly (of pronunciation).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lātus]]

+ * [[lātitūdō]]

+ * [[dīlātō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}