Later, m. g. láterem, látere: & lateres, pen. cor. in plurali integrum, genitiuus & datiuus singulares rarò leguntur. Cicero. Bricke: tile.Lateres coctiles. Valla. Bricke.Later coctus. Vitruu. A bricke tile baked in a kylle.Lateres in fornacem coquere. Cato. To make bricke in a kylle. Laterem lauare.Terent.To labour in vaine.
Latus, láteris, pen. cor. n. gen. Virg.A sine, it is often taken for strength and durablenesse of the voyce in vtterance.Conatus laterum. Quint. Dolor laterum Horat.A stitch: a pluresie.Inclinatio laterum fortis ac virilis. Quint. Inflexio laterum.Cic.Ardua latera.Virg. Niueum. Virg.Forte latus. Horat. Patiens laboris latus. Quint. Innalidum latus.Ouid. Rigidum. Stat.Longum latus.Senec. Tenerum latus. Tibul. Ensis accinctus lateri, Vide ACCINGO.Accommodare ensem lateri, Vide ACCOMMODO.Adhærere lateri, Vide ADHAEREO.Adiungere aliquem lateri filij. Quint. To appoint one alway to be with his sonne to gouerne him.Astare in latus obliquum.Ouid.To stande with his side toward him.Cinxit latus ense.Ouid.He hauged his sword by his side.Latus conserere lateri, Vide CONSERO.Extentum cursu missa latus eruit hasta.Ouid.Exoluere latere pugionem.Tacit.To loose & take his dagger from his side.Exonerare latus ense. Senet. Hærit lateri lethalis arundo.Virg.The deadly arrow sticketh in his side.Munire latus nauis.Ouid.Latus ense peregit.Ouid.He thrust his sworde through his side.Resoluit latus ense.Ouid.He thrust him into the side with his sword.Ima soluuntur latera.Virg.Submittere latus.Ouid.To lay downe his side: to lie downe. Latus.Cicer. Pro vitibus & spiritu. Plin. Verebamur ne not dies, ne vox, ne latera deficerent. Homines latere. Curtius. Men verie familiar and alway about the Prince. Campi latus.Ouid.The side of the field.Latus mundi. Horat. Latera insulæ. Cic.Æqua latera. Quint.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lăter, ĕris, m. [Sanscr. root prath-, widen; prathas, breadth; Gr. platu/s, pla/tos], a brick, tile. I.Lit.: nil mirum, vetus est maceria, lateres si veteres ruunt, Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 49 sqq.: in latere aut in caemento, ex quibus urbs effecta est, Cic. Div. 2, 47, 98; cf.: paries crudo latere ac luto constructus, Col. 9, 1, 2: contabulationem summam lateribus lutoque constraverunt, Caes. B. C. 2, 9: lateres de terra ducere,
to make
, Vitr. 2, 3, 1: lateres coquere,
to burn
, id. 1, 5: sepimentum e lateribus coctilibus,
burnt bricks
, Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 4.—Prov.: laterem lavare, to wash a brick, = pli/nqon plu/nein, i. e. to wash the color out of a brick, to labor in vain, Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 8; but cf. Lucil. Sat. 9, 19.—II.Transf.: lateres aurei, argentei, bars, ingots, or wedges of gold, of silver, Plin. 33, 3, 17, 56; Varr. ap. Non. 131, 15; 520, 17.