English → Latin
“clot” in Latin
massamass, bulk (of material); load, burden; doughglaebaclod (lump of earth); land, soil; lump, mass of stuffglaebulaa small clod, a little lump (usually of soil); a small plot of land, a little farmmassŭlaa little lumppixpitch, tarserōto sow, plant; to beget, bring forth, produce; to found, establish; scatter, spread, disseminate; propagate; excite; caucoeōto assemble, meet, come together; to encounter, come up against; to copulate, have sexconcrēscōto thicken, condense, curdle, stiffen, congealspissōto thicken, condense; to urge on, hasten (an action)coāgulōto curdle; make thick, solid; to coagulate
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
clot
massa (e.g., of pitch, picia, Verg.): gleba (e.g., turis, Luir.; picis, Caes.; sevi, Caes.): glebula, massula. A clot of blood, sanguis concretus (Ov.).*concreti sanguinis particula.
clot v.
coire: concrescere: spissari (The words are found in this connection and order). spissari et in densitatem coire: coagulari (PROP. by rennet, as milk; thereof any liquid mass, made to coagulate in any way). Clotted milk, lac gelatum, congelatum: hair clotted with blood, crines concreti sanguine.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for clot?
- The usual Latin words for “clot” are massa, glaeba, glaebula; also massŭla, pix, serō. 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.