English → Latin
“branch” in Latin
rāmusbranch, bough, limbfrōnsthe forehead, brow, front; the brow or countenance as an indicator of the feelings; as the mirror of a person's charactetarmesa worm that eats wood; a woodwormsurculusshoot, sprout, sprig, twig; a scion, graft, a sucker, slip, set of a plant for growth; a small treesarmentumshoot; twigs, brushwoodrāmāletwigs, shoots, sticks; brushwood, undergrowthpalmōto make the print or mark of the palm of the hand; to tie up a vinerāmulusa little branch or bough, twig; a sprigrāmusculuslittle branch; twigsilvēscōto grow wild, run wild
The English word branch itself goes back to Latin branca.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
branch
ramus (a bough from the trunk): frons (leafy branch of a bough): termes (branch broken off with its leaves and fruits). A dry branch, ramale. A vine branch, palmes, sarmentum. A little branch (bough), ramulus, ramusculus.
Sprig, surculus, sarmentum. To put forth branches [Vid.
branch
v.] : excessively, silvescere. To have branches, frondere. FIG., ramus (branch or collateral line of a stock): familia (division of a gens): pars (part). Branch of a river, brachium, pars; caput (one of its mouths). Branch of the sea, sinus, aestuarium. Branch of a mountain, ramus, brachium. The four branches into which morals divide themselves, quatuor partes honestatis.
branch v.
frondescere; ramis diffundi; luxuriari. A branching beech, patula fagus.
Branch (divide itself) into two parts, into several parts, in duas, plures partes dividi. To branch out a discourse, orationem in plures partes, in plurima capita distinguere.
To speak diffusely, latius, uberius dicere, disputare; pluribus dicere. To branch out far, late se fundere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for branch?
- The usual Latin words for “branch” are rāmus, frōns, tarmes; also surculus, sarmentum, rāmāle. 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.