English → Latin
“cake” in Latin
placentaa placenta cake; a round cake with a ribbed base and a convex top with a knob in the middle and a honey and cheese fillilībuma cake or pancake, made of meal and milk or oil and spread with honey, such as was offered to the gods, especially on a massamass, bulk (of material); load, burden; doughpondusweight; weight of a pound; heaviness, weight of a bodyconcrēscōto thicken, condense, curdle, stiffen, congealindūrēscōto harden, set, become hard
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cake s.
placenta: libum (the flat cake of honey, meal, etc.; a sacrificial and also birth-day cake): massa: pondus (a mass of anything in general).
cake v.
TR., with anything, aliquid alicui rei concoquere. INTR., concrescere (congeal, stick together, etc.): in massam concrescere: indurescere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for cake?
- The usual Latin words for “cake” are placenta, lībum, massa; also pondus, concrēscō, indūrēscō. 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.