English → Latin
“cobweb” in Latin
arāneaspider; spider's web, cobweb; threads similar to spiders' webstexōto weave, knit; to plait, intertwinearāneōsusFull of cobwebs or spider's webs.; Similar to cobwebs; cobwebby.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cobweb
texta aranea, plur.; also aranea, plur. alone (Plin., Phaedr., 2, 8, 23): textura or tela araneae: to brush away all the cobwebs, omnem aranearum operam perdere; omnes aranearum telas disjicere: covered with cobwebs, araneosus: like a cobweb, similis textis araneis; also araneosus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for cobweb?
- The usual Latin words for “cobweb” are arānea, texō, arāneōsus. 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.