Ancestor of the romance languages (5)

I believe the answer is:

latin

(Other definitions for latin that I've seen before include "Parent language of French,Romanian" , "Hispanic, for example" , "Learning it 'an honour' (Churchill)" , "language class" , "foreign language" .)

I've seen this clue in the LA Times.

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