Parent language of French, Spanish and Italian (5)

I believe the answer is:

latin

(Other definitions for latin that I've seen before include "difficult subject" , "Cicero's tongue" , "A Romance language" , "Virgil's tongue" , "Romantic language" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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