English → Latin
“board” in Latin
tabulatablet, sometimes a tablet covered with wax for writing; board or plank; map, painting, document or other item put onto axisAn axletree of wagon, car, chariot.; The North Pole.; The heavens or a region or clime of these.alveushollow, cavity; hollow, deep vessel, basket, trough, tray; deep cavity, excavation; hold, hullalveolusa small hollow or cavity; a tray, trough, basin; a small gaming board upon which the dice are thrownabacussquare board; sideboard; counting board, abacusmēnsaa table; a table of food; meal, course, feast; an altar (sacrificial table)cēnadinner, supper, principal meal (anciently taken at noon, afterwards later); gwestva (a duty levied by Welsh kings twice convīviumbanquet, party, feastepulumfeast, banquet, festive entertainment; dishes, meats.; food.cōnsīdōto sit down, be seated; to settle, settle down, establish residence (with enduring commitment); to sit (as a judge)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
board
tabula; assis or axis (thick board, plank). To cut a tree into boards, arborem in laminas secare. A house made of boards, aedificium tabulatum or ex tabulis factum. A floor laid with oak boards (planks), solum roboreis axibus compactum or constratum.
To play on, tabula: forus aleatorius, alveus or alveolus (dice-board): abacus (board with squares).
Table, mensa: figuratively, cena, convivium, epulae. Side-board, abacus. To lire at another’s board, aliena mensa or quadra vivere. To be separated from bed and board, cubilibus ac mensa discerni.
Food and lodging, victus pacta mercede praebitus. Good board, victus lautus. To give one his board, gratuitum victum dare alicui.
Assembly, collegium, consessus, consilium.
On board, in navi. To go on board, navem conscendere. To have a person on board, sustulisse aliquem: a thing, vehere aliquid. To leap overboard, ex navi desilire or se projicere. To throw overboard, alicujus rei jacturam facere.
board v.
contabulare.
Live at a certain price, ab aliquo, pacta mercede, ali; alicujus victu, pacta mercede, uti. To board and lodge with anybody, esse in hospitio apud aliquem; hospitio alicujus uti. Put at board, aliquem alicui pacta mercede alendum tradere.
Enter a ship, in hostium navem transcendere; navem conscendere.
Address, attempt, alloqui, compellari; tentare, petere, adoriri; praevertere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for board?
- The usual Latin words for “board” are tabula, axis, alveus; also alveolus, abacus, mēnsa. 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.