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say it: LAY-tuhnt
latent is an adjective meaning "potentially existing but not presently evident or realized". It is pronounced /ˈleɪtənt/ — LAY-tuhnt. It carries 2 recorded senses.
potentially existing but not presently evident or realized
“a latent fingerprint”
“latent talent”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for latent come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.