lats

From lat (“staff; pillar”) +‎ -s.

lats

1. plural of lat: staves; pillars.

Clipping of latrine (q.v.) + -s.^[1]

lats pl (normally plural, singular lat)

1. (UK slang) Latrines: rudimentary or military facilities for urination and defecation.
   • 1927, William Edward Collinson, Contemporary English, page 92:

     At Salisbury Plain and Camberley in 1909/10 I learnt a number of camping expressions like... lats (latrines).

   • 1940, M. Marples, Public School Slang, page 112:

     Other synonyms [sc. for lavatories] are rears, lats... and dubs.

• See Thesaurus:bathroom

From Latvian lats, from Latvija (“Latvia”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɑːts/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /lɑts/
• Rhymes: -ɑːts, -ɑts

lats

1. plural of lat: the former currency or money of Latvia.

lats (plural lati)

1. (historical numismatics) Alternative form of lat.

Clipping of latissimus + -s.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /læts/

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• Rhymes: -æts

lats pl (normally plural, singular lat)

1. (slang) The latissimus dorsi muscles.

Clipping of latitude + -s.

lats

1. plural of lat: latitude.

• Alts, LTAs, SALT, Salt, TLAs, alts, last, salt, slat

• Hyphenation: lats

lats inan

1. (chiefly Northern) stream

   Synonym: erreka

• “lats”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “lats”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

lats

1. romanization of 𐌻𐌰𐍄𐍃

A reduced form of Latvija, first used in 1922 to name the new currency that replaced the Latvian rublis.

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lats m (1st declension)

1. lats (monetary unit of Latvia between 1922 and 1940, and again between 1993 and 2013; replaced by the Euro on Jan. 1st, 2014)

   pieci lati ― five lats

   papīra lats ― paper lats (i.e., bills, banknotes)

   lata kurss ― the exchange rate of the lats

   grāmata maksā divus latus ― the book costs two lats

lats m (definite singular latsen, indefinite plural latsar, definite plural latsane)

1. lats (currency of Latvia)

• “lats” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latvian lats.

lats ?

1. lats, currency of Latvia

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lats

1. indefinite genitive singular of lat

• last, salt, stal, tals