English → Latin
“chest” in Latin
arcachest, box, coffer, safe (safe place for storing items, or anything of a similar shape); coffin (box for the dead); ark cistaa trunk, a chest, a casketcapsaA box, case, holder, repository; especially a cylindrical container for books; bookcase.armāriuma cupboard, closet, chest, especially one in the sacristy of a church where vestments are kept; a safe for food, clothinscrīniumcase or chest for books or papers; portfolio, briefcase; desk (for writing)pyxisa small box; for holding medicines or toiletriespectuschest, breast; heart, breast, as the seat of emotion; soul, spirit, mind, understandingthōrā̆xchest, thorax; breastplate, cuirass; doublet, stomacherpraecordiadiaphragm; midriff; entrails; chestferōto bear; to carry; to support, hold up; to suffer, tolerate, endure, bear
The English word chest itself goes back to Latin cista.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
chest
arca: cista: capsa: armarium: scrinium: pyxis. Little chest, arcula: capsula: capsella: cistula: cistellula [SYN. in BOX]. Chest of drawers, armarium.
Breast, pectus: thorax: praecordia, plur. (cavity of the chest with the heart and lungs): latus: latera (especially with reference to the state of the lungs): a weak chest, latus imbecillum (opposed to latera bona: my chest grows stronger, lateribus accedunt vires. Broad-chested, pectorosus.
Money-box, area: loculi (a private man’s): fiscus (a sovereign’s: Silver Age) :aerarium (the state chest; treasury. also with privatum, a private man’s).
chest v.
in area concludere, includere, sepire, obsepire.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for chest?
- The usual Latin words for “chest” are arca, cista, capsa; also armārium, scrīnium, pyxis. 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.