Meaning

adjective being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time

adjective after the expected or usual time; delayed

adjective of the immediate past or just previous to the present time

originFrom Middle English late, lat, from Old English læt (“slow; slack, lax, negligent; late”), from Proto-West Germanic *lat, from Proto-Germanic *lataz (“slow, lazy”). By surface analysis, deverbal from let. Cognates Cognate with Yola laate (“late”), North Frisian leed, leet, lääs (“late”), Saterland Frisian leet (“late”), Dutch, German Low German laat (“late, tardy”), Danish lad (“languid, lazy,…

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