English → Latin
“deck” in Latin
tegōto cover; to clothe; to conceal, hide, protectcontegōto conceal, hide or cover up; to protect; to clotheobtegōto cover over or up; to veil, hide, conceal; to protectintegōto cover; to protectsternōto spread, stretch out, spread out; to calm, still, moderate; to cover, spread with, scatter with, bestrew with, besprincōnsternōto alarm, shock, startle, terrify, throw into confusionīnsternōto cover (over); to strew (on)ōrnōto furnish, equip, outfit, prepare; to adorn, ornament, decorate; to honor, commend, praiseexōrnōto equip, furnish, supply, provide; to adorn, embellishdistinguōto distinguish; to separate, divide or part; to adorn or decorate
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
deck
To cover, tegere (general term): contegere; obtegere; integere (anything with anything, aliqua re aliquid): sternere; consternere; insternere [SYN. in COVER; which see for phrases]: to deck a horse with trappings, equum sternere, insternere.
To adorn, ornare (general term): exornare, distinguere [SYN. in ADORN]: comere: to deck with anything, ornare, or exornare, or distinguere, or distinguere et ornare aliqua re; excolere aliqua re, or ornatu alicujus rei (e.g., the walls with marble, parietes marmoribus; a room with pictures, cubiculum tabularum pictarum ornatu): to deck one’s self, se exornare (e.g., I deck myself out to please you, me exorno, tibi ut placeam).
To cover with a deck; Vid: next word.
deck s.
constratum navis (*Petronius, 100, 3 and 6). To cover with a deck, consternere (but only found in the past participle; Liv., 21, 28, being in a different sense). A vessel with a deck, constrata navis (Cic., Liv.); tecta navis (Caes., Liv., Tac.): ships which have decks, naves tectae, or constratae (opposed to naves apertae).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for deck?
- The usual Latin words for “deck” are tegō, contegō, obtegō; also integō, sternō, cōnsternō. 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.