English → Latin
“dissection” in Latin
sectiōcutting off, cutting up; mowing; surgeryanatomiaanatomyanatomicusanatomistCaeliusLucius Coelius Antipater, a Roman jurist and historian; Marcus Caelius Rufus, a Roman politician and orator
The English word dissection itself goes back to Latin secō, through dissectio.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
dissection
sectio (act of cutting, corpora sectionibus dividere, Vitr. 2, 2): anatomia or anatomice (ἀνατομική; caelius, Aurel., the art of scientifically cutting up a body). Krebs says that Cels. uses laceratio mortuorum, but he does not refer to the passage. [it occurs in p. 10, 1. 20, ed, Milligan]: aperire corpus mortuum.
Nice examination; by circumlocution with rem, quae proposita est, quasi in membra decerpere (Cic.). Vid: EXAMINATION.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for dissection?
- The usual Latin words for “dissection” are sectiō, anatomia, anatomicus; also Caelius. 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.