English → Latin
“cloth” in Latin
pannuscloth; rag; garmentlinteumlinen cloth; bedsheet; sailciliciumrug or garment made from goat hairpōnōto place; to put; to lay; to ordain; to appoint; to make (something); to set up; to pitch (camp)Apuleiusof Apuleius
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cloth
pannus: woolen cloth, panuus laneus: linen cloth, pannus linteus: lintea, plur. Stout cloth, pannus duplex. Fine cloth, pannus tenuior (opposed to pannus crassior). Cotton cloth, perhaps *pannus xylinus (Vid: CALICO]: hair-cloth, cilicium. A cloth manufactory, panni officina.
Table-cloth, linteum in mensa ponendum or positum (Vid: Apuleius, Apologia, 308, 19), or only *mensae linteum. To lay the cloth, *mensam linteo sternere (after Martialis, 14, 138): triclinium sternere (to prepare the dinner sofas, after the ancient fashion).
Cloth of state, aulaeum.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for cloth?
- The usual Latin words for “cloth” are pannus, linteum, cilicium; also pōnō, Apuleius. 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.