拉丁语是距今大约3000多年前居住在现在罗马附近的人们使用的方言,在古罗马人进行领土扩张的过程中传布到欧洲西南部各地,成为罗马帝国的通用语言。后来,随着罗马帝国的崩溃而分化为意大利语、法语、西班牙语和罗马尼亚语等。中世纪西欧各国曾以拉丁语为宗教、文化和科学研究的 Latin is the dialect spoken by people living in the present vicinity of Rome about 3,000 years ago. It spread throughout the southwestern Europe during the Roman expansion and became the common language of the Roman Empire. Later, with the collapse of the Roman Empire and divided into Italian, French, Spanish and Romanian. Middle Eastern Western European countries used Latin for religious, cultural, and scientific research