English → Latin
“clod” in Latin
glaebaclod (lump of earth); land, soil; lump, mass of stuffglaebulaa small clod, a little lump (usually of soil); a small plot of land, a little farmglobusany round object; a sphere; a globe; a glob, groupglobulusdiminutive of globus; globule; buttonstīpōto crowd or press together, compress; to cram, stuff, fill; to surround, encompasscaudextree trunk, stump; bollard; post; book, writing; notebook, account book
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
clod
gleba, diminutive glebula (of earth; also a lump of other substances, as pitck, etc.): globus, diminutive globulus (general term for any round mass; also of flour).
A clown, homo rusticus: stipes: caudex (as abusive epithets against a person).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for clod?
- The usual Latin words for “clod” are glaeba, glaebula, globus; also globulus, stīpō, caudex. 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.