English → Latin
“battalion” in Latin
cohorsa court; a farmyard or enclosure; a retinue or escortagmena train of something; multitude, host, crowd, flock; an army, column, troop, band; line or rank of troops; stream, coursorbiscircle, ring; of things that return at a certain period of time, a rotation, round, circuit; an orb (sphere)FabriciusName of a plebeian Roman gens (family).
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
battalion
cohors: agmen (on the march): orbis (a circular battalion: the ancients were ignorant of our square battalions; with them agmen quadratum meant the whole army under one leader, formed into line of battle so as to resemble a parallelogram. Vid: Fabricius, Sall, Jag., 100, 1. Herzog, Hirt., B.G., 8, 8, extr. Dissen., Tibull., 4, 4, 1, 100).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for battalion?
- The usual Latin words for “battalion” are cohors, agmen, orbis; also Fabricius. 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.