Obs. Also 4–5 latymer, 4 ? latynier, latynere. [a. OF. latim(m)ier, a corruption (perh. orig. graphic, but adopted in oral use) of latinier, f. Latin: see LATIN sb.] An interpreter.
c. 1205. Lay., 14319. He wes þe bezste latimer þat ær com her.
a. 1310. in Wright, Lyric P., xv. 49. Lyare wes mi latymer.
13[?]. K. Alis., 7089. Ther he fond latimeris, That ladde him to hyghe rocheris.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 7573. Þys Breþ was þe kynges latynier.
c. 1400. Maundev. (1839), v. 58. And alle weys fynden Men Latyneres to go with hem.
1480. Caxton, Chron. Eng., lvii. 41. A latymer told the kyng the full understondyng ther of wassaylle.
