English → Latin
“broad” in Latin
ferōto bear; to carry; to support, hold up; to suffer, tolerate, endure, bearpatulusopen, wide open, gaping; spread out, extended; common (open to all)ampluslarge, spacious, roomy; abundant, ample; impetuous, violent, strongspatiōsusspacious, roomy; wide, longlaxuswide, spacious, roomy; yielding; loose, slack, freemagnusgreat, large, big; (of things) vast, extensive, spacious (of physical size or quantity); great, grand, mighty, noble, lovāstusEmpty, unoccupied, i.e. waste, desert.; Desolate, deserted, made lonely.; Wasted by destruction, laid waste, ravaged, declārusclear, bright; renowned, famous, famed, distinguished, illustrious, celebrated, glorious; upstanding, respectedaperiōto uncover, make or lay bare, reveal, clear; to make visible, discover, show, reveal, lay open; to unclose, open, break manifestuscaught in the act, plainly guilty; detected in the act, flagrant, plain; obvious, self-evident
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
broad
wide, latus.
Spreading, patulus.
Large, amplus, spatiosus, laxus, magnus. A ditch five feet broad, fossa qoinqne pedes lata. The plain is three miles broad, planities in latitudinem tria millia passuum patet. To be two inches broader than, duobus digitis excedere. To wax broad, in latitudinem diffundi. A broad-spreading beech, patula fagus. The broad sea, mare apertum. To have a bread conscience, parum religiosum esse. As broad as long, quadratus: figuratively, it is as broad as long, eodem redit: whether, etc., nihil interest, utrum, etc. Broad grounds, causae or rationes gravissimae. Broad-footed, palmipes: broad-breasted, pectorosus: broad-shouldered, latus ab humeris. Broad-leaved, latifolius, folio latiore. Broadsword, ensis.
Of pronunciation, latus, vastus. A broad utterance, latitudo verborum. To pronounce letters broad, litteras dilatare.
Clear, open, clarus; apertus, manifestus. Till broad day, ad clarum diem, ad multum diem. Broad signs, manifesta signa.
Circumstantial, minute, latus, fusior.
Coarse, rasticus, vastus.
Free, loose, liber, liceus; procax, impudicus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for broad?
- The usual Latin words for “broad” are ferō, patulus, amplus; also spatiōsus, laxus, magnus. 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.