English → Latin
“comb” in Latin
pectencomb; pubic hair; haircarmensong, tune; a composition in verse, a poem; poetry, verse, song; poem, poetry (strictly any poem or poetry that can be sstrigilisstrigilcristathe crest, the plume; the comb or tuft on the head of animals (most frequently of a rooster or a cock); the tuft of leavconvallisravine, narrow enclosed valleypectōto comb; to card, heckle, comb; to hoe, weedcomaThe hair of the head.; foliage, ears, blades, stalks of trees, grass (as though resembling hair)capillusa single hair; hair (plurally); a head of hair: locks, tressescarminōto card, produce by carding
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
comb
pecten: a dressing-comb, pecten rarioribus radiis: a small-tooth comb, pecten densioribus radiis: pecten densus. ☞ *Pecten crinalis (for combing; but for keeping up the hair, and as ornament, the Roman ladies made use of the acus discriminalis: Vid: Böttiger’s Sabina, i., p. 147): the tooth of a comb, radius pectinis: a comb for wool carmen; pecten: for flax, hami ferrei, quibus linum pectitur (Plin., 19, 1, 3): a curry-comb, strigilis: a horse-comb, scopulae setosae equis comendis: comb of a cock, crista: juba.
In the shape of a comb, *pectini similis: as adverb. pectinatim.
comb
(a place surrounded on all sides by mountains, in which several valleys meet)(a place surrounded on all sides by mountains, in which several valleys meet), convallis.
comb v.
pectere (general term): pectere capillos or comas (but not comere; capillos or comas: i. e., to dress the hair): to comb the hair back from the forehead (à la Chinoise), capillos a fronte contra naturam retroagere: to comb wool, carminare: to comb flax, hamis ferreis linum pectere: to comb a horse, strigili radere; subradere. Combed, to be formed by past participle of the above verbs.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for comb?
- The usual Latin words for “comb” are pecten, carmen, strigilis; also crista, convallis, pectō. 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.