English → Latin
“bottom” in Latin
fundusbottom; farm, piece of land, estate, demesne; groundsōlusalone, sole, only, by oneself with no others around; solitary, uninhabitedvallumwall, rampart, entrenchmentconvallisravine, narrow enclosed valleyplānitiēsplain, plateau; flatnessfundāmentumfoundation; beginning; basisnāvisship, boat, vessel; a fleet in the plural; nave (middle or body of a church)nāvigiumvessel, ship, boatglomusball-shaped mass; ball of thread, yarnīmuslowest, deepest, innermost, nethermost; the lowest part of, the bottom of, the depths of
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
bottom
fundus (of a cask, the sea, etc.), solum.
Valley. plain, vallis, convallis, planities.
Ground-work, fundamentum, fundamenta. The bottom of the sea, mare imum, fundus or ima (neuter plur.) maris. The anchor finds bottom, ancora subsistit, sidit. To drain a wine-jar to the bottom, cadum faece tenus potare. The bottom of the ditch, solum fossae. To settle to the bottom, residere, subsidere. To go to the bottom (sink), mergi, sidere, pessum ire. To send to the bottom, pessum dare, mergere, demergere. The bottom of a ship, atveus or carina (navis). To search a thing to the bottom, accuratius, subtilius investigare aliquid; aliquid investigare et perscrutari; aliquid pertractare. To come to the bottom of a matter, aliquid perspicere. I see the bottom of him, eum penitus perspicio. I do not see upon what bottom it rests, rationem quam habeat, non satis perspicio. He is at the bottom of this, ortum est hoc ab eo. To overturn, destroy from the bottom, funditus evertere; a fundamentis disjicere; funditus tollere. To place at the bottom, in immo ponere. From top to bottom, ab summo ad imum. Sharpened at the bottom, ab immo praeacutus. He groans from the bottom of his heart, gemitum dat pectore ab immo. I am distressed even at the bottom of my heart, angor intimis sensibus. At the bottom of a mountain, sub radicibus montis, in imis radicibus montis.
Ship, navis, navigium.
FIG., you are embarked on the same bottom, in eadem es navi.
Clew, glomus. To wind yarn into bottoms, lanam glomerare in orbes.
bottom v.
To be bottomed upon a thing, niti aliqua re or in aliqua re; teneri, contineri aliqua re; cerni, positum esse in aliqua re.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for bottom?
- The usual Latin words for “bottom” are fundus, sōlus, vallum; also convallis, plānitiēs, fundāmentum. 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.