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Who coined the term Latin?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

The word "Latin" has been around as long as the language has, and no one knows who coined it. It means "of or pertaining to Latium." The place-name Latium may be related to the Latin word latus, meaning "broad; wide" (stlatus in Old Latin), from the Proto-Indo-European root *stela- "to extend".

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