Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Latin \Lat"in\, n.
   1. A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman.

   2. The language of the ancient Romans.

   3. An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into
      Latin. [Obs.] --Ascham.

   4. (Eccl.) A member of the Roman Catholic Church.

   {Dog Latin}, barbarous Latin; a jargon in imitation of Latin;
      as, the log Latin of schoolboys.

   {Late Latin}, {Low Latin}, terms used indifferently to
      designate the latest stages of the Latin language; low
      Latin (and, perhaps, late Latin also), including the
      barbarous coinages from the French, German, and other
      languages into a Latin form made after the Latin had
      become a dead language for the people.

   {Law Latin}, that kind of late, or low, Latin, used in
      statutes and legal instruments; -- often barbarous.

Source : WordNet®

Late Latin
     n : the form of Latin written between the 3rd and 8th centuries
         [syn: {Biblical Latin}]