‘Latin’ named a rite-based identity rather than a geography

Evidence

The word Latin is often used (as a noun) in the sense usual in the East to-day, that is, to mean a man whose rite is Latin (not Greek, Arabic or Syriac). Western European is an alternative, but less exact, term. Frank also has the same meaning; frangi, though more common later, was used by Muslims in the Middle Ages. It was not, however, used in Spain, and the more technical expression seems more apt. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 108

Categorization

• XREF: The rite-based (not geographic) definition of ‘Latin’ — and its Eastern etymology through ‘Frank/frangi’ — shows the ‘West’ was an externally-imposed Eastern construct, relevant to vault claims about the West as relational category.