English → Latin
“brick” in Latin
testaa piece of burned clay, brick, tile; a sort of clapping with the flat of the hands (as if with two tiles), in token of alaterculussmall brick; small tile; a kind of pastry (so called because of its being shaped like a tile); a tile-shaped piece of lalatericiusbrick, brickworkfingōto shape, fashion, form, knead (dough); to touch, touch gently, stroke, stroke gently, handle; to adorn, dress, arrangecaementāriusmason, stonemason, stonecutter, wall-builder; worker in concrete
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
brick
later, later coctus, testa. A little brick, laterculus. A brick wall, murus coctilig, latericius. To make (form) bricks, lateres ducere, fingere: to burn them, lateres coquere. An unburned brick, later crudus. Brick-work, (opus) latericium. To lay bricks, opus latericium facere. A brick-layer, caementarius. A brick-kiln, fornax lateraria. A brick-maker, laterarius. Brick-dust, lateres in pulverem contriti, testa trita.
brick v.
lateribus sternere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for brick?
- The usual Latin words for “brick” are testa, laterculus, latericius; also fingō, caementārius. 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.