English → Latin
“bush” in Latin
frutexshrub, bush; trunk (of a tree); blockheaddūmusbush, shrubveprēsthornbush, briar bush, bramblesumto be, exist; there be; to gomercēspay, wages, reward; revenue, income; chastisement, punishment, penalty
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
bush
frutex.
Of thorns, dumus, vepres, sentis. [Syn. in BRAMBLE, BRIER]. To go about the bush, aliquid vitabundum circumire (in Tac., alicujus nomen): ambages agere. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, spem pretio non emo. Good wine needs no bush, laudat venales, qui vult extrudere, merces (Hor.). Proba merx facile emtorem reperit [tametsi in abstruse sita est (Plaut., Poen., 1, 2, 128)]: bonum vinum pittacium or titulum nullum desiderat; res ipsa loquitur. Bushes, bush-wood, virgulta, fruteta.
bush v.
spatiose fruticare.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for bush?
- The usual Latin words for “bush” are frutex, dūmus, veprēs; also sum, mercēs. 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.