a. Hist. [ad. late L. lætic-us, f. lætus (see below); the word is usually viewed as adopted from Teut. *lǣto-z (see LÆT).] Of or pertaining to the læti, a class of non-Roman cultivators under the later Roman empire, who occupied lands for which they paid tribute.
1839. Keightley, Hist. Eng., I. 129. At a subsequent period [in Roman history] lands denominated Lætic were given in the interior of the provinces to larger bodies of the Barbarians on similar condition.
1874. Stubbs, Const. Hist., I. vi. 161. As the freemen were mingled more or less with lætic or native races.
1892. C. M. Andrews, Old Eng. Manor, Introd. 39. Portions of the Teutonic laetic organization may have lingered in Kent.
