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latin Name Meaning and History

English: metonymic occupational name for a Latinist, a clerk or keeper of Latin records, from Middle English Latyn, Latin. Compare Latimer.

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latin Family Facts

Distribution of latin Families in the US in 1920
Number of latin families
 9-16
 4-8
 1-3
 0
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