English → Latin
“chip” in Latin
schidiachip or splinter (of wood)assulasplinter, shaving, chip, shiver; shinglerāmentawhat is gratedparsa part, portion, piece, share; pars ... pars ..., some ... others ...; a party, fraction, sidefrustuma piece, bit; crumb, morsel, scrap of foodfrustŭluma small piececrustathe hard surface of a body; rind, shell, crust, bark, scab; plaster, mosaic or stucco work on a wallrĕcīsāmentumthat which is cut offfragmentuma piece (broken off), remnant, fragmentcōnsecōto cut up, cut to pieces; to lop or cut off, prune
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
chip
schidia (σχίδιον), or pure Latin assula (for burning, e.g., of pine-wood, schidia or assula taedae): scobs: ramenta, plur. (of sawing, boring, or filing): particula (general term), frustum: frustulum (of bread): crusta (of marble, etc., for mosaic work): recisamentum (of carved or cut wood): a chip of broken matter, fragmentum. PROV., A chip of the same block, ejusdem farinae.
chip v.
concidere in partes: also concidere only: consecare (by means of cutting): (ascia) dolare: dedolare: edolare (to chip with an axe roughly): ascia polire (to make smooth with an axe).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for chip?
- The usual Latin words for “chip” are schidia, assula, rāmenta; also pars, frustum, frustŭlum. 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.