English → Latin
“bone” in Latin
ōsmouth; (in general) head or face; (in general) facial features, countenance, appearancespīnathorn; thorny tree or shrub; thorn; spine; prickleossĭcŭluma small boneosseusbone; bony, hard as boneexosbonelessexossōto bone, debone (deprive of the bones)ossĭcŭlātimby bones
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
bone
os; spina (of a fish). A little bone, ossiculum. Of bone, osseus. Without bones, sine osse, exos. To deprive of bones, exossare (also of fish). Bone by bone, ossiculatim. He is nothing but skin and bones, ossa atque pellis totus est; vix ossibus haeret. I tremble, every bone of me, omnibus artubus contremisco. Barkbone, spina. Hip-bone, coxa, coxendix, os coxae. Shin-bone, tibia. To break a bone, os frangere. I make no bones of doing this, religio mihi non est, quominus hoc faciam. I hare given him a bone to pick, injeci serupulum homini.
bone v.
take out the bones, exossare (congrus exossabitur, Ter.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for bone?
- The usual Latin words for “bone” are ōs, spīna, ossĭcŭlum; also osseus, exos, exossō. 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.