English → Latin
“array” in Latin
ōrdōa methodical series, arrangement, or order; regular line, row, or series; a class, station, condition, rank; a group or vestisgarment, gown, robe, vestment, clothing, vesturevestīmentumgarment, robe, article of clothing; clothes, clothing, garmentsvestiōto clothe, dress; to adorn, attire, deck; to cover, blanketiūrātorA person who swears an oathaciēssharp edge or point; battle line; battle, engagementcōpiasupply, abundance, copiousness, wealth, riches; plenty, fulness, multitude; opportunity, facilities (the means of doing īnstituōto set up, establish, found, institute or arrange; to train, teach, instruct, educate (usually by a course of training);convestiōto clothe, dressherbagrass, herbage; herb; weeds
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
array s.
ordo.
Battle array, acies. To draw up an army in battle array; to set in array, copias or aciem instruere, instituere.
The array (=soldiers drawn up), ordines militum.
Dress, vestis: vestimenta (plur.): vestitus (kind of apparel).
Jurors impanneled, perhaps indices selecti: turba selectorum (chosen, at Rome, from the senators, knights, and tribuni aerarii): juratores (sworn valuers of any thing, Plaut.).
array v.
arrange, Vid:
Dress, vestiro: convestire: induere sibi vestem or se veste: veste indui: veste se amicire (to wrap one’s self up in a garment: applied, therefore, to upper garments; not to garments drawn on, which is induere: vestire is general): vestiri, amiciri aliqua re (velari aliqua re, poetically): to be arrayed in gold and purple, insignem auro et purpura conspici. The earth is arrayed with flowers, etc., terra floribus, herbis, , etc.: vestitur.
To array a panel, judices seligere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for array?
- The usual Latin words for “array” are ōrdō, vestis, vestīmentum; also vestiō, iūrātor, aciēs. 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.