lateen

Other forms of lateen

plural

lateens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lateen

What does lateen mean?

lateen means "a triangular fore-and-aft sail used especially in the Mediterranean". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lateen?

lateen has 2 syllables: la-teen. The stress falls on "la".

What is another word for lateen?

Close synonyms include lateen sail, lateen-rigged. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lateen a common word?

lateen is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.