laten

American  

[leyt-n] / ˈleɪt n /

verb (used with or without object)

1. to make or become late.

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Etymology

Origin of laten

First recorded in 1875–80; late + -en ¹

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

laten

Ne solde noman don a furst ne laten wel to done For maniman bihoteð wel þat hi forȝieteð sone.

From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Hall, Joseph

Sir Iohn, and Maister mine, I combat craue Of this same laten bilbo.

From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge

Also she said that when she wolde wyl him to do any thinge for her, she wolde say her Pater noster in laten.

From The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology by Murray, Margaret Alice

In laten tonge at Coleyn hyself to auauce That every well disposed man may therein loke.”

From The Old English Herbals by Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair

The first is The Boke of Comfort, called in laten Boetius de Consolatione philosophie.

From A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)