English → Latin
“blade” in Latin
herbagrass, herbage; herb; weedsculmusstalk, stem (of grass etc.); hay; strawpalmapalm of the hand, hand; blade of an oar; palm tree; date treepalmuladiminutive of palma; the palm of the hand; the fruit of the palm tree; datelāminaa thin piece or sheet of metal, wood, marble, etc.; a plate, leaf, layer; a red-hot plate used as torture devices for slferrumiron; any tool made of iron; swordēnsissword, brand; war; defenderpetulānspert, saucy, impudent, wanton; freakish; petulantlevislight, not heavy; easy to digest; quick, swift, fleet, nimble, rapidhomō̆human, person, man; male human being, man; term of address to male peers, especially by another man: man, fellow, mate,
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
blade
of grasses, herba; graminis herba (of grass): culmus (green stalk of corn). To be in the blade, in herba esse.
Of an oar, palma, palmula.
Of a knife or sword, lamina.
The sword itself, ferrum, ensis.
Brisk fellow, homo lascivus, petulans, levis, etc.; homo.
The shoulder-blade, scapula.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for blade?
- The usual Latin words for “blade” are herba, culmus, palma; also palmula, lāmina, ferrum. 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.