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“coach” in Latin

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

coach
currus (any wheel-carriage to travel in, expeditiously): pilentum (with four wheels, high, hanging on springs [pensilis, Servius, Verg., aeneis, 8, 666], with flat top, open on both sides, and painted green, used by matrons in religious processions, etc., Vid: Servius, etc.): tensa or thensa (with four wheels, and drawn by four horses, ornamented with ivory and silver, on which the statues of the gods were carried to the circus, and then placed on their pulvinaria): cisium (a light, two-wheeled traveling carriage, with a seat of basket-work; cabriolet): rheda (a Gallic word; a larger four-wheeled coach, with sufficient room for several persons and luggage): epirhedium (a small, one-horsed vehicle, with a sort of wooden arch over the horse to hold up the shaft; Vid: Cramer, Schol. Juven., 8, 66): carruca (a rheda for persons of rank, richly ornamented, and probably covered): petoritum or petorritum (an open, four-wheeled Gallic vehicle). A coach and pair, bigae: a coach and four, quadrigae: currus quadrigarum (with the horses all four abreast, not, as in our times, two and two): a coach or vehicle with its horses put to it, vehiculum junctum: to ride in a coach, curru vehi; juncto vehiculo vehi; junctis jumentis vehi; to ride in a four-hnrsed coach, quadrigis or curru quadrigarum vehi: to sit in a coach, in vehiculo, curru (etc.) sedere: to drive a coach, currum regere: to some place, currum aliquo flectere: to upset a coach, currum evertere: to stop the conch, currum sustinere: by the coach, curru: curru vectus; in curru (or rheda, etc.) sedens (sitting in the coach): to keep a coach and horses, currum et equos habere: to have (or go in) one’s own coach or carriage, *suo vehiculo (or sua rheda, etc.) uti: in a hackney coach.*meritorio vehiculo or meritoria rheda uti: a stage-coach, vehiculum publicum (i. e., a vehicle coming the nearest to our mail or posting vehicle, used in the times of the emperors): rheda cursualis (post-chaise, time of the emperors) [Vid :, also, CARRIAGE, VEHICLE, WAGON]: the body of a coach, capsus (Vitr., 10, 9, (14), 2.). ☞ Ploxemum was rejected by Quint., 1, 5. 8. as a foreign word, used by Catullus only (96, 6): the carriage of a coach, rotae et axes (opposed to capsus): the seat of a coach, sedile or sella vehiculi or currus [Vid: Sen., , Ep., 70, 20; Phaedrus, 3, 6, 5]: the head of a coach, *tegimentum currus: the pole of a coach, temo. Coach-box, sella prima; Vid: Phaedrus, 3, 6, 5.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for coach?
The usual Latin words for “coach” are currus, pīlentum, tēnsa; also cisium, raeda, carrūca. 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.