English → Latin
“body” in Latin
corpusculuma particle, especially an atom.; a term of endearment.venterthe belly; a paunch, maw, conveying the accessory idea of greediness or gormandizing; the stomachalvusbelly, bowels, paunch; excrement; flux, diarrhoea; stomach, digestive organs; womb; matrix (of a fruit)homō̆human, person, man; male human being, man; term of address to male peers, especially by another man: man, fellow, mate, quisquamanyone (at all); anything (at all)quīvīswhoever you will, anyone, anything; whatever (you will), whatsoeverquīlibetanyone; anythingcollēgiumcolleagueship, (connection of associates, colleagues, etc.); guild, corporation, company, society, college (concrete defclassisany one of the five divisions into which Servius Tullius divided the Roman citizenry; the armed forces; fleetexercitusexercise; trouble, affliction; an exercised, disciplined body of men, an army
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
body
corpus. A small body, corpusculum. To have a healthy body, bona corporis valetudine uti. To devote himself body and soul to one, alicui corpus animamque addicere: to a thing, totum et mente et animo in aliquid insistere. Body-guard, corporis custodes: stipatores corporis, stipatores: satellites, cohors praetoria, milites praetoriani. A dead body, corpus mortuum, corpus hominis mortui, also corpus or mortuus: cadaver; funus. To lay out a dead body, corpus mortuum curare. Having two bodies, bicorpor. Able or strong-bodied, robustus, validus, firmus.
Belly, venter, alvus. Beans puff up the body, venter inflatur fabis. To bind the body, alvum astringere.
Person, homo. Nobody, nullus, nemo; non ullus. non quisquam. Everybody, omnes homines, omnes.
Anybody, quisquam (after negatives, with vix, sine; in interrogative sentences when the ansaer “No” is expected; and in the second member of comparative sentences): quivis, quilibet (any you please): quis (after si, nisi, ne, num quo. quanto; but si quisquam, when doubt is to be expressed whether there is anybody). Somebody, aliquis. Hardly anybody, non fere quisquam. Nor is he seen by anybody, neque cernitur ulli (for ab ullo). Not a body, homo nemo, nemo unus. That nobody do hurt to anybody, ne cui quis noceat. Lest anybody, ne qois. If anybody, si quis.
Collective mass, corpus. They wished to have a king out of their own body, sui corporis creari regem volebant. He set in order the body of the empire, ordinavit imperii corpus. A complete body of all the Roman law, corpus omnis Romani juris. The whole body of citizens, cives cuncti; also civitas. The whole body rose, omnes universi consurrexerunt.
Corporation, etc., corpus, collegium; classis. A learned body, societas doctorum hominum.
Of soldiers, manus, exercitus; pars exercitus or copiarum; agmen; caterva. A body of cavalry, pars equitum: ala equitum. A body (club) of conspirators, globus conjuratorum. A body of players, grex histrionum.
Main part: of a tree, truncus, stirps: of a column, scapus, truncus: of the human body, truncus. The body of a country, interior alicujus terra; regio; interiora alicujus terrae.
Strength. Wine of a good body, vinum validum, firmum, forte, plenum.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for body?
- The usual Latin words for “body” are corpusculum, venter, alvus; also homō̆, quisquam, quīvīs. 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.