English → Latin
“buck” in Latin
māsmale; manmasculusmale, masculine; manly, virile; Used of the larger and coarser varieties of plants or other natural productshircusa buck, male goat; the rank smell of the armpits; a filthy personcunīculusa rabbit; a rabbit burrow; a mine, underground tunnel or gallery
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
buck
mas, masculus, added to the name of the animal.
Buck-goat, caper, hircus.
Male deer, cervus mas, mas dama. Buckskin, pellis cervina: buck-rabbit, cuniculus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for buck?
- The usual Latin words for “buck” are mās, masculus, hircus; also cunīculus. 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.