English → Latin
“chilfren” in Latin
līberfree, independent, unrestricted, unchecked, unrestrained, licentious; freeman, freewoman; open (not decided or settled)prōgeniēsrace, family, progeny, lineage, descentstirpsrootstock; the lowest part of the trunk of a plant, including the roots.; a plant, shrub, shoot, sprout; lineage, race, nātusson; childrenpariōto bear, to give birth to; to spawn, produce, generate, beget; to procure, acquirepuera child; chit; a boy, lad (typically between ages 7-14 but could be younger) (older than an īnfāns but younger than an apuellagirl, lass, maiden (female child); sweetheart, mistress, beloved maiden; young woman, young wifeparvussmall; little; puny; cheap; petty; trifling; ignorable; unimportantparvuluslittle; tiny; petty; small; slight; paltry; mean; unimportant; insignificant; young; tender of yearslūdusa school, especially a primary school; game, sport, play; public spectacle, games, stage plays/productions
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
chilfren
liberi, orum: progenies (offspring, descendants): stirps (litterally, the stem; both can stand for “a child,” when this is used in a pregnant sense for “issue,” “offspring;” proles and suboles are poetical in this sense): natus (for filius), by no means admissible in good prose, any more than the feminine nata (for filia) and the plur. nati (natae), e.g., natus meus or de me natus, etc. It is a different thing when we find in Cic. (Lael., 8, 27), bestiae, quae ex se natos ita amant, etc., and inter natos et parentes, because here the opposition between the parent and the offspring is intended to be prominently marked out; or whenever natus or nata ex, etc., appears as a pure participle, with which filius (or filia) is to be understood, as Nep.., Epam., 10, 2: ne tu pejus consulas, qui talem (sc. filium) ex te natum relicturus sis; and again, namque ex me natam (sc. filiam) relinquo pugnam Leuctricam [Vid: the context of the passage]. To beget children, liberos procreare: I have no child (progeny), stirps mihi deest; nullam liberorum stirpem habeo: my children are dead, orbus sum: to deprive anybody of the hope (of bearing) children, alicui spem partus adimere: to bear children to anybody, liberos ex aliquo parere or eniti: my children! (as a term of affection in addressing even grown up persons), mi fili! o bone! mea bona! mea filia! my pretty children! mea lepida!
With regard to age, (α) yet unborn, fetus or partus (in late medical writers, embryo): (β) of a tender age, infans (until it can speak): puer (boy): puella (girl).
Children, pueri; puellae; parvi, parvuli (the little ones): a young or little child, puer (puella) infans: from a child [Vid: CHILD-HOOD].
To get with child, praegnantem facere: (if by violence), *stupro per vim oblato. praegnantem facere. To be with child, gravidam or praegnantem esse (by anybody, ex aliquo): ventrem ferre, partum ferre or gestare.
(Any thing is) (Any thing is) mere child’s play, ludus: res facillima.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for chilfren?
- The usual Latin words for “chilfren” are līber, prōgeniēs, stirps; also nātus, pariō, puer. 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.