A more thorough explanation:

laterare

In the past, when describing land, the term laterare was used to mean lying sideways instead of endways.

Example 1: The land was described as laterare, meaning it was wider than it was long.

Example 2: The property was laterare, which meant that the house was built sideways on the lot.

The term laterare was used in the past to describe the orientation of land. If the land was wider than it was long, it was said to be laterare. The examples illustrate this definition by showing how the term was used to describe the shape of the land or the orientation of a building on the land.