LekhoriLekhoriNear the end of a period of time.
The seedlings appeared to be coming along nicely until a late frost killed them.
Specifically, near the end of the day.
It was getting late and I was tired.
Associated with the end of a period.
Late Latin is less fully inflected than classical Latin.
A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night.
At about 11 pm one night in Corporation Street my watch were on van patrol and Yellow Watch were on late as usual.
From Middle English late, lat, from Old English læt (“slow; slack, lax, negligent; late”), from Proto-West Germanic *lat, from Proto-Germanic *lataz (“slow, lazy”). By surface analysis, deverbal from ...
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Formerly, especially in the context of service in a military unit.
Colonel Easterwood, late of the 34th Carbines, was a guest at the dinner party.
Not long ago; just now, recently.
He ſhall doe this, or elſe I doe recant / The pardon that I late pronounced heere.