English → Latin
“apple” in Latin
malusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, mpōmumany type of fruit (applied to apples, cherries, nuts, berries, figs, dates, etc.); fruit treepūpulapupil (of the eye); little lass (term of endearment)pūpillaan underage orphan, female ward; the pupil of the eyeoculuseye; sight, vision; luminary of the sun and starsocellusdiminutive of oculus: little eye; darling
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
apple
malum (PROP. apple and all similar fruits; e.g., apples, pomegranates, peaches, lemons, but not pears): pomum (general term for any edible fruit). Apples that hace been gathered, mala strictiva (opposed to cadiva, fallings): apples for preserving, mala conditiva. The core of an apple, volva mali, pomi (Scribonius Largus, 104, end).
Pupil of the eye, pupula, pupilla: (as term of endearment) oculus, ocellus. To love any body as the apple of one’s eye, aliquem in oculis ferre or gestare; aliquem oculitus amare (in comedy).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for apple?
- The usual Latin words for “apple” are malus, pōmum, pūpula; also pūpilla, oculus, ocellus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.