English → Latin
“brass” in Latin
aesmoney, pay, fee, fare; copper, bronze, brass; payment, debtmetallummetal (atomic element or material made of such atoms); precious metals, especially gold or silver.; mine (place where meorichalcumbrassaerōsusfull of copperaerātusmade or covered with brass or bronze, brazen (used sarcastically of a rich person)aēnumcopper vessel, cauldron
The English word brass itself goes back to Latin bracchium, through brachia.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
brass
aes, aeris, metallum; orichalcum (PROP. a natural copper ore, and a kind of brass prepared from it). Brass ore, or brass stone, lapis aerosus. Full of brass, aerosus. Covered with brass, aeratus. To cover with brass, aere inducere. Made of brass [Vid: BRAZEN]. A brass pot, ahenum.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for brass?
- The usual Latin words for “brass” are aes, metallum, orichalcum; also aerōsus, aerātus, aēnum. 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.