English → Latin
“chariot” in Latin
curruschariot, car (more often two-wheeled cars (biga) used in battle and in racing); wagon, wain; ship, boatcarpentumcarriage (two-wheeled); chariot; wagon, cart; barouchepīlentuma chariot used by Roman ladiestēnsathe chariot or car on which the images of the gods were borne in the Circensian games; a carriagecisiuma light, two-wheeled carriage, a gigraedacoach (carriage for carrying people) with four wheelscarrūcaA chariot.; A coach, carriage (four-wheeled).; A heavy wheeled plow.petōritumAn open, four-wheeled carriageessedumchariot; carriagecŏvīnusa war-chariot of the Britons and Belgæ
The English word chariot itself goes back to Latin carrus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
chariot
currus (general term): carpentum: pilentum: tensa or thensa. [SYN. in CARRIAGE.]
For journeys, cisium: rheda: carruca: petoritum or petorritum.
For racing and war, currus (in Silver Age, curriculum): essedum (the war chariot of the Gauls, Britons, etc., afterward used at Rome as the usual chariot for a journey): covinus (war chariot armed with scythes of the Gauls, Britons, etc). A chariot drawn by two horses, bigae: by four, quadrigae or currus quadrigarum. To ride in a chariot, in vehiculo (curru, etc) sedere: to drive a chariot, currum regere: turn it in any direction, currum aliquo flectere: get into one’s chariot, inscendere in currum: upset a chariot, currum evertere: to stop a chariot, currum sustinere: to keep a chariot and horses, currum et equos habere: to go in a hired chariot, *meritorio vehiculo, or meritoria rheda uti.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for chariot?
- The usual Latin words for “chariot” are currus, carpentum, pīlentum; also tēnsa, cisium, raeda. 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.