English → Latin
“bowl” in Latin
pōculuma drinking cup; as used in context to describe the experience of social drinking: having a drink, etc.pateraA broad, flat dish, saucer, bowl, or vessel, used especially for libations during a religious rite or sacrificephialasaucer (or similar broad, flat bowl); a censer, thuriblescyphuscup, goblet; communion cupcrātēramixing bowl (for wine and water); crater (of a volcano)pēlvisshallow bowl or basinaquāliswater; full of waterlabrumlip; edge, margin, brim, lipglobusany round object; a sphere; a globe; a glob, groupvolōto wish, to please; to want; to mean, to intend
The English word bowl itself goes back to Latin bulla.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
bowl
poculum, patera, phiala, scyphus: cratera or crater (for mixing drinks in): pelvis; aqualis, aquae manale.
Of a fountain, labrum, crater.
Vid, BASIN.
bowl
for rolling, globus.
bowl
TR., volvere: INTR., conos globis petere, globis or conis ludere. Bowling, conorum lusus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for bowl?
- The usual Latin words for “bowl” are pōculum, patera, phiala; also scyphus, crātēra, pēlvis. 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.