latten

• laton

From Middle English laten, latun, latoun, from Old French laton, laiton, from Arabic لَاطُون (lāṭūn, “copper, copper alloy”), itself from Proto-Common Turkic *altun (“gold”). See Turkish altın, Old Turkic 𐰞𐱃𐰆𐰣 (altun, “gold”), Karakhanid اَلْتُونْ (altūn, “gold”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlætən/
  • (MLE) IPA^(key): /ˈlaʔən/

latten (countable and uncountable, plural lattens)

1. (archaic or historical) An alloy of copper and tin, similar to bronze, with a sufficient portion of tin to make it a pewter-like color with yellowish tinge (rather than the brownish-gold color of bronze of higher copper content), once used in thin sheets and for domestic utensils and light-duty tools.
2. Sheet tin; iron plate, covered with tin.
3. Any metal in thin sheets.

   gold latten

• Talent, antlet, latent, talent

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑ.tə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: lat‧ten
• Rhymes: -ɑtən

From lat (“slat, lath”) +‎ -en.

latten (not comparable)

1. made from slats

From lat (“living apart together”) +‎ -en.

latten

1. (intransitive) to have a LAT relationship

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

latten

1. plural of lat

• talent

latten

1. alternative form of latoun