English → Latin
“baker” in Latin
pī̆storpounder of far / spelt (a slave who grinds it into flour); miller and/or bakerfurnāriusbakerdulciāriusOf or pertaining to confectionery.; Making sweetmeats.corpusbody, person (person when used to mean "human body", e.g., "on one's person"); substance, material (physical, perceptibluōto put on (clothes etc.); don.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
baker
pistor; furnarius; furnariam exercens (pistor is the slave employed in baking; furnarius, the freeman exercising the trade): a baker of fancy bread, pistor dulciarius, or merely dulciarius: a baker’s wife, furnarium exercentis uxor (Suet., Vit, 2): a female baker, pistrix (Varr., L.L., 5, 31, § 138): the guild of bakers, corpus, collegium furnariorum: a baker’s apprentice, furnarium exercentis (according to Suet., Vit. 2), or pistrinae alumnus (according to Tac., Ann., 15, 34, 3): baker’s bread, panis a propola emtus (Cic., Pis., 27, extract): the baker’s market, forum pistorium: baker’s man or boy, opera piatoria (mostly in the plur., operae pistoriae).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for baker?
- The usual Latin words for “baker” are pī̆stor, furnārius, dulciārius; also corpus, uō. 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.