Lateen

Definitions: Lateen

Lateen

Adjective

1. Rigged with a triangular (lateen) sail.

Noun

1. A triangular fore-and-aft sail used especially in the Mediterranean.

Date "lateen" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Etymology: Lateen \La*teen"\, adjective. (Naut.) Of or pertaining to peculiar rig used in the Mediterranean and adjacent waters, especially on the northern coast of Africa. See below. Lateen sail. [French expression voile latine sail in the shape of right-angled triangle; compare to Italian expression Spanish vela latina; properly Latin sail. See Latin.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Lateen

Synonyms: lateen-rigged (adj), lateen sail (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Lateen

English words defined with "lateen": Caravel ♦ Dahabeah ♦ lateen sail, lateen-rigged ♦ yard. (references)

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	Lateen (ltn.).Credit: Library of Congress.
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"Lateen" is generally used as a cardinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lateen" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Cardinal Number	100%	3	202,518

Expression using "lateen": lateen sail. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "lateen": lateen-rig, lateen-rigged, lateen-sail.
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Language		Translations for "lateen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		с триъгълно платно, с латинско платно. (various references)

Danish		latinersejl (lateen sail). (various references)

Dutch		latijnzeil (lateen sail). (various references)

French		voile latine (lateen sail). (various references)

German		Lateinsegel (lateen sail), latainsegel (lateen sail), Schratsegel (lateen sail). (various references)

Greek		ιστίο τρίγωνο (lateen sail), λατίνι (lateen sail), τριγωνικό ιστίο (lateen sail). (various references)

Italian		latino (Latin). (various references)

Pig Latin		ateenlay

Portuguese		recentemente (freshly, lately, latterly, newly, now, recently, yesterday). (various references)

Russian		треугольный (leg of mutton, three-cornered, triangular, trigonous, triquetrous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		trougaono jedro. (various references)

Spanish		latino (Latin). (various references)

Swedish		latinsegel (lateen sail). (various references)

Thai		เกี่ยวกับใบเรือที่มีรูปทรงสามเหลี่ยม. (various references)

Turkish		yakın zamanda (newly). (various references)

Ukranian		трикутний (triangular). (various references)

Vietnamese		$lateen sail$ bu�"m tam giác. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "lateen": lateener, lateeners, lateens. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Lateen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alatyn, Altecea, altecean, altener, Altyn, atween, blaten, flitelen, Jatene, kapteeni, Laben, laeti, lanteen, latan, latea, latee, latein, laten, latenet, latere, latern, lateyn, latren, lattee, latuent, Latyne, laxen, lecteen, Letgen, lethean, liseen, Lisheen, liten, littain, Logteren, loteen, Loten, Ltee, Lutece, lutein, luten, lutine, Lutken. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-n-t"
	-1 letter: anele, eaten, elate, enate, laten, leant, telae.
	-2 letters: alee, ante, elan, etna, lane, late, lean, leet, lent, neat, tael, tale, teal, teel, teen, tela, tele.
	-3 letters: ale, alt, ane, ant, ate, eat, eel, eta, lat, lea, lee, let, nae, nee, net, tae, tan, tea, tee, tel, ten.
	-4 letters: ae, al, an, at, el, en, et, la, na, ne, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-n-t"
	+1 letter: elegant, enteral, eternal, kantele, lateens, latened, leanest, lethean, lineate, teleman, teleran, tenable.
	+2 letters: alienate, anethole, antelope, antlered, cleanest, dateline, elaterin, elephant, elongate, endplate, entailed, entailer, entangle, eternals, eventual, exhalent, external, galenite, gelatine, kanteles, lamented, lamenter, lancelet, lanceted, lanneret, lateener, lateness, leathern, legatine, levanted, levanter, lineated, mantelet, melanite, nestable, nettable, nucleate, panetela, pentacle, petaline, regental, relearnt, relevant, rentable, selenate, talented, talesmen, tapeline, telerans, tenaille, tentacle, treelawn, treenail, tuneable.
	+3 letters: acetylene, alertness, alienated, alienates, alimented, alinement, alternate, anetholes, anglesite, antelopes, antennule, antielite, antisleep, blanketed, calenture, cattlemen, celebrant, centraler, clientage, coeternal, crenulate, datelined, datelines, delineate, demential, detonable, earnestly, eglantine, elaterins, elegantly, elemental, elephants, elevating, elevation, eliminate, elongated, elongates, enamelist, endosteal, endplates, entailers, entangled, entangler, entangles, enterable, enterally, enucleate, essential, eternally, exhalents, explanted, externals, exultance, fenestral, flattened, flattener, galenites, gantelope, gantleted, gelatines, genetical, gentleman, gestalten, inelegant, interlace, intermale, intervale, lamenters, lancelets, lannerets, lateeners, latencies, letterman, levanters, lineament, linoleate, mantelets, melanites, nameplate, natheless, nearliest, nucleated, nucleates, panetelas, penalties, pentacles, pentangle, petulance, phenolate, placement, placentae, prevalent, ravelment, rectangle, reinflate, repellant, replanted, retinulae, segmental, selectman, selenates, sensately, stablemen, staleness, tailender, tapelines, teaseling, teazeling, tegmental, telamones, tenailles, tentacled, tentacles, tenurable, ternately, tervalent, toenailed, tolerance, treelawns, treenails, unaltered, uneatable, unrelated, untenable, valentine, ventilate, waterline.
	+4 letters: accelerant, accentless, acetylenes, acetylenic, adherently, adolescent, adulterine, afferently, alinements, allurement, alternated, alternates, anglesites, antebellum, antechapel, antennules, antepenult, anthelices, anthelixes, antielites, antifemale, babblement, bafflement, battlement, binucleate, blanquette, cajolement, calentures, cantilever, celebrants, centennial, centesimal, centralest, centralise, centralize, chatelaine, cleanliest, clientages, coalescent, coelentera, colemanite, credential, crenelated, crenulated, decadently, delaminate, delegating, delegation, delineated, delineates, delineator, derailment, desalinate, dilettante, eglantines, elatedness, elementals, elementary, elevations, eliminated, eliminates, embalmment, enamelists, endothelia, enlacement, entailment, entanglers, enthalpies, enthralled, entodermal, enucleated, enucleates, epicentral, equivalent, essentials, eternalize, evangelist, eventually, evidential, extendable, externally, exultances, flatnesses, flatteners, flatulence, fontanelle, gantelopes, gauntleted, gelatinize, generalist, generality, geniculate, goaltender, halogenate, heulandite, impalement, indelicate, inevitable, injectable, integrable, interlaced, interlaces, interlayer, interleave, interplead, interrenal, intervales, investable, irrelevant, lamentable, lamentedly, lanceolate, latenesses, laundrette, leafleting, leathering, lemniscate, lentamente, licentiate, lieutenant, lineaments, linecaster, linoleates, listenable, maleficent, malevolent, melanocyte, mercantile, mesnalties, myelinated, naltrexone, nameplates, negatively, negotiable, neorealist, neutralise, neutralize, nonathlete, noticeable, oblateness, opalescent, outgeneral, outlearned, overmantel, parenteral, parentless, patentable, pedimental, penalities, penetrable, penetralia, pentangles, peritoneal, petulances, phenolated, phenolates, placements, planchette, planetlike, planetwide, planimeter, plasticene, pleasanter, pregenital, prevalents, rabblement, ravelments, realtering, rectangles, regelating, regimental, reinflated, reinflates, relegating, relegation, relevantly, reluctance, repellants, resemblant, returnable, revealment, revelation, saltnesses, sentential, septennial, sequential, solacement, stableness, streamline, tabernacle, tailenders, talentless, tallnesses, tanglement, teaselling, teazelling, teleostean, tenantable, tenantless, terminable, terneplate, tolerances, trancelike, trawlermen, treponemal, ultradense, unbeatable, uncleanest, unclearest, unlamented, untalented, untestable, untraveled, valentines, venalities, ventilated, ventilates, vestmental, waterlines, watermelon, wavelength, wentletrap.
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