a. (sb.) [f. LETT + -IC.] Of, pertaining to, or related to the Letts; = LETTISH. Also, in wider sense, applied to the group of languages (by some philologists called Baltic) comprising Lettish, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian, and to the group of peoples speaking these languages. Also absol. as sb., the Lettic or Lettish language.
1872. R. Morris, Eng. Accidence, i. 8. The Lettic Languages. (1) Old Prussian … (2) Lettish or Livonian … (3) Lithuanian.
1880. Libr. Univ. Knowl. (N. Y.), VIII. 835. The Lettic race proper still in Courland, in Livonia.
1881. Freeman, Hist. Geog. Eur., I. xi. 466, note. A common name for these closely allied nations is sometimes needed. Lettic is the most convenient.
