English → Latin
“company” in Latin
societāssociety, fellowship, partnership, association, community, union; affinity (a union for a common purpose); a company or scorpusbody, person (person when used to mean "human body", e.g., "on one's person"); substance, material (physical, perceptiblcenturiōto divide into groups of one hundred; to arrange into companies; having voted according to centuries
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
company
society, connexion: societas (e.g., societas Bithynica, the company of the farmers of the revenue in Bithynia): corpus (e.g., the Adriatic, maris Hadriatici, Inscr.): to forma company societatem facere: to enter into company with anybody, aliquem sibi socium adjungere; voluntariam societatem coire cum aliquo: to be in a company (= partnership) with anybody, alicujus socium esse; re ac ratione cum aliquo conjunctum esse (Vid: Cic., Verr., 2, 70, 172).
Division of a regiment on foot: perhaps centuria: to divide into companies, centuriare: to enlist in a company, nomen dare.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for company?
- The usual Latin words for “company” are societās, corpus, centuriō. 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.