English → Latin
“bay” in Latin
badiusreddish brown, chestnut colored, bayspādīxspadix; inflorescence (especially of a palm tree); a type of lyresinusa bent surface; a curve, fold, hollow; a gulf, bay, bight; the chord of an arc; a sinecavushollow, hollowed out, cavernous, concave; excavated, channeled; vain, emptybauborto bark, bay, howl (moderately)lātrōto bark, bay; to rant, bluster; to roar
The English word bay itself goes back to Latin bāca.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
bay adj.
badius; spadix (applied to a horse).
bay s.
sinus (with or without maritimus or maris understood): bay window, fenestra arcuata; fenestra convexa (viewed externally): cava (internally).
Position of a stag facing the hounds. To stand at bay, perhaps, canes mordicus prementes defendere: canea invadentes or incursantes defendere: adversus canes se cornibus defendere: canibus invadentibus obvertere cornua (after Plaut., Pseud., 4, 3, 5: nunc mi obvortatcornua). To bring to bay, ferum consistere cogere (after Caes., B.G., 4, 5).
bay
baubari (derived from the natural sound of a dog): latrare: latratus edere. TR., allatrare aliquem (in an envious, cowardly way, post-Augustan: of persons only).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for bay?
- The usual Latin words for “bay” are badius, spādīx, sinus; also cavus, baubor, lātrō. 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.