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“beard” in Latin
barbabeard (facial hair); wool, down on a plantāruncusthe beard of the goatfibrafibre, filament; entrailsprōmittōto send forth; to promisemagnusgreat, large, big; (of things) vast, extensive, spacious (of physical size or quantity); great, grand, mighty, noble, lohī̆rsūtusrough, shaggy, bristly, prickly; hairy, hirsute
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
beard s.
barba (applied to man, animals, and inanimate things): lanuso; barba prima; barba incipiens (the first beard; lanugo also applies to the down offemales): aruncus (beard of a goat): fibrae (beard of an oyster): a little beard, barbula: a good or long beard, barba longa, promissa, magna: a rugged or grisly beard, barba horrida, hirsuta: a red beard, barba aenea: a red-bearded man, aenobarbus; qui barbam aeneam habet: having a beard, barbatus: having an apology for a beard, or just enough to swear by, barbatulus: having a nice little beard, qui barbula delectatur: having a strong beard, bene barbatus: to coax a beard, barbam alere: to let a beard grow, barbam promittere: to shave off the beard, radere or abradere barbam alicujus (with a razor, novacula): to trim the beard, tondere alicujus barbam (with scissors, forfex: to trim and shave the beard, modo tondere, modo radere barbam.
The beard of corn, or prickles, aristae.
beard v.
to take by the beard, barbam alicui vellere.
Fig., confidenter alicui resistere: confidenter resistentem respondere, contumacem esse in aliquem.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for beard?
- The usual Latin words for “beard” are barba, āruncus, fibra; also prōmittō, magnus, hī̆rsūtus. 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.