colloq. [f. LATIN sb. or v. + -ER1. Cf. F. latineur, G. Lateiner. (Distinct from latynere LATIMER.)] A Latin scholar; one who speaks Latin.
a. 1691. in E. Pocock’s Life, § 3 (1816), 95. ‘Our parson is one Mr. Pocock, a plain honest man; but master,’ said they, ‘he is no Latiner.’
1727. W. Mather, Yng. Man’s Comp., 17. K is not heard in Back … for the Latiners made the same sound with c alone.
1752. Foote, Taste, I. Wks. 1799, I. 13. The children are all wonderful latiners.
1834–43. Southey, Doctor, xxiii. (1862), 55. Rowland Dixon is no Latiner…. Schools are the proper place for representing such pieces, and if I had but Latiners enough we would have them ourselves.
1857. Borrow, Romany Rye, xlii. The chap that I’m talking about … came out first-rate Latiner.
