English → Latin
“cluster” in Latin
fasciculusa small bundle or package (especially of letters or rolls); a bunch of flowers, nosegay; a computer fileūvathe fruit of the vine; a grape; grapes; a bunch or cluster of grapescorymbuscluster of fruit or flowersracēmuscluster or bunch of grapes, berries or similar fruitsacervusmass, heap, pile, stack, cluster; treasure; consonant cluster (pronounceable group of consonants that occur together)cumulusheap, pile; surplus; summitcirculuscircle (geometric figure); orbit (circular path); ring; hoopcorōnachaplet, laurel, or wreath; presented to athletes, the gods, or the dead; crown; garlandturbaturmoil, disorder, stir, disturbance, tumult, uproar, hubbub, commotion, trouble, confusion, disarray, brawl; mob, crowdexāmenswarm of bees; crowd; tongue of a balance; a consideration, an examining
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cluster
fasciculus (cluster of flowers): uva (of grapes, also of bees, Vid.
cluster s.
corymbus (of ivy, and other like plants): racemi (in plur., a cluster of grapes, ivy, etc.; in the sing., racemus is the branch or stalk to which the berries are attached): acervus. cumulus (heap): circulus (cluster of men): corona (ring of men about a speaker): turba (crowd, throng): multitudo in unum conglobata: examen (of bees). In clusters, *uvarum modo: catervatim (in crowds): acervatim (in heaps, etc.). The fruit of others grow in clusters, alia dependent racemis (Plin..).
Of islands, *insulae complures: if the name of the islands is mentioned, insulae only; thus the cluster of the Strophades. Strophades insulae.
cluster
v, INTR., perhaps*uvarum modo crescere (to grow in clusters): racemis dependere: uvas or racemos ferre or facere.
Of bees, confluere (Verg.): to cluster on the branches, uvam ramis demittere (Verg., Georgica, 4. 568): pedibus per mutua nexis (frondente) ramo pendere (Aen., 7. 67): on a roof, delubri culmine longa uva considere (Juv., 13, 68). Bees clustering on houses or temples, uva dependens in domibus templisve (Plin., 11, 16).
Assemble in crowds [Vid. ASSEMBLE, INTR.] : TR., Vid: HEAP TOGETHER.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for cluster?
- The usual Latin words for “cluster” are fasciculus, ūva, corymbus; also racēmus, acervus, cumulus. 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.