English → Latin
“cabbage” in Latin
brassicaespecially cabbage, but including cauliflower and other varieties of Brassica oleraceaholusvegetable; greenscaulisstalk, stem; stem of a cabbagecrambēcabbagecatusclever, intelligent, sagacious, clear-thinking; cunning, crafty, sly; shrill, sharp, clear-soundingsurripiōto snatch away; to steal, pilfer, purloin, filch
The English word cabbage itself goes back to Latin caput.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cabbage
brassica (the proper word): olus (any kitchen-herb, of which brassica is a species; Vid: Cato, R.R., 176, in.: brassica est, quae omnibus oleribus antistat); caulis (PROP., the stalk; poetically, the cabbage itself): crambe (according to Plin., 20, 9, 33, a sort of cabbage with thin and compact leaves, known to the Greeks, in Latin only proverbially; e.g., crambe repetita. cabbage warmed up again, anything stale by repetition): head of cabbage, caput brassicae: cabbage leaf, brassicae folium: cabbage plant, planta brassicae.
cabbage v.
subducere furto: surripere. Vid: TO FILCH.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for cabbage?
- The usual Latin words for “cabbage” are brassica, holus, caulis; also crambē, catus, surripiō. 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.