English → Latin
“coat” in Latin
gausapaA shaggy, woolen cloth; a garment of friezecolobiumAn undergarment with short sleevespellōto push, drive, hurl, impel, propel; expel, banish, eject, thrust out; to strike, set in motion; to rout, put to flight,vellusthe wool shorn from a sheep; fleece; wool; the hide or pelt of an animalsternōto spread, stretch out, spread out; to calm, still, moderate; to cover, spread with, scatter with, bestrew with, besprincircumlĭtĭoA smearingcoriumanimal skin; hide, fell; leather; leather belt, whip; crust, coat, peel, shelltrullissātĭoa trowellingdēficiōto move away, leave, withdraw, break away; to be exhausted, run out, fail, run out, be wanting, fail, cease, disappear, optimāsof or pertaining to the best; of or pertaining to the noblest; aristocratic, noble
The English word coat itself goes back to Latin cotta.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
coat s.
As the ancients did not wear coats, there is no exact term [Vid: GARMENT]. “Great-coat,” the nearest words are endromis and gausapum (or gausapa, or gausape; Vid: GARMENT). To turn coat, deficere, desciscere ab aliquo. To be a turn-coat, defecisse or descivisse a partibus (optimatium, etc., as the case may be).
A waistcoat, perhaps colobium (a short vest without arms, the form if the tunic at its first introduction, Servius, ad Verg., Aen., 9, 616). Coat of mail, lorica serta (Nep.); lorica conserta hamis (Verg.). PROV., to cut one’s coat according to one’s cloth, suo se modulo ac pede metiri.
Covering of the flesh, pellis (bristly; with pili): vellus (fleecy; with villi): the coat of a horse, pellis. His coat is harsh and dry, aret pellis (Verg.): a harsh, dry coat, pellis dura ac frigida (Lucr.): to cast its coat (of the serpent), vernationem or senectam exuere. The horse changes his coat, equus villos mutat
Coat of certain vegetables (e.g., the onion), cutis (thin covering of soft vegetables; e.g., of berries, of the kernel of a nut): membrana: tunica (membrana, of chestnuts, walnuts, etc.; tunica, of mushrooms, wheat. bark, etc.): cerium (thick outward skin, e.g., of grapes): callus, callum (of apples, etc.): folliculus (husk of corn, pod).
Layer, of plaster, etc., stratura (what is spread upon anything; e.g., of manure, of gravel, etc., Suet., Pall.): circumlitio (the laying on of colors, varnish, wax, etc., Sen. and Plin.): corium (thick coating; e.g., of mortar, earth, etc. Vitr.): trullissatio is plastering, or laying on mortar with a trowel, Vitr.): to lay a coat of paint upon anything, alicui rei inducere: to give a wall a coat of piaster, tectorium in parietem inducere: he has given anything four coats of paint, alicui rei quater induxit colorem (Plin.): to cover anything with a coat of plaster of Paris, gypso aliquid illinere (Plin.).
Coat of arms, insigne generis (☞ Cic.., Sull., 31, 88).
coat v.
inducere aliquid alicui rei or super aliquid; inducere aliquid aliqua re (e.g., ceram parieti or parietem cera: the roof with gold, aurum tecto: the bricks with leather, coria super lateres): illinere aliquid alicui rei or aliquid aliqua re (e.g., aurum mamori: aliquid gypso): circumlinere aliquid aliqua re (to smear over with anything; e.g., alvos fimo bubulo, Plin.): trullissare (technical term for laying on mortar with a trowel, Vitr.): contegere or integere aliquid aliqua re (e.g., luto. Caes.): to coat a wall with mud, parieti lutum iuducere (Vitr.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for coat?
- The usual Latin words for “coat” are gausapa, colobium, pellō; also vellus, sternō, circumlĭtĭo. 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.