English → Latin
“crumb, crum” in Latin
micōto vibrate, quiver; to twinkle, glitter, flash, gleam, beam, shine, to be bright; to tremblereliquiaeremains; relics; remnants; remainders; leftovers of a mealanalectaThe slave that collected the crumbs after a mealmīcŭlaa little crumb, little grain, little bit
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
crumb, crum
mollis pars panis: panis mollia plur. (the soft part of the loaf, opposed to to “the crust”): interior pars panis (the inner part of a loaf, in general): mica (a bit, a particle of bread): frustula (small pieces of bread that have been broken from the loaf): reliquiae (remnants, pieces of bread that have been left, or not been eaten at any given meal). A few crumbs of bread, panis uncia: a person who picks up the crumbs that fall from the table, analecta (ἀναλέγω, Martisalis): a small crumb, micula. I have not a single crumb of bread to eat, in summa inopia vivo.
To pick up one’s crumbs (i. e., to recover from illness), Vid: To RECOVER.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for crumb, crum?
- The usual Latin words for “crumb, crum” are micō, reliquiae, analecta; also mīcŭla. 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.