English → Latin
“ditch” in Latin
fossaa ditch, trench, moat, fosse; a gutter, waterway; a furrow drawn to mark foundationsincīliscut infossulaA small ditch or trench.dūcōto lead, guide, conduct, lead away; to take; to draw, pulldēprimōto press down; to depress; to suppress, repress or silence; to disparagepercutiōto strike, beat; to make an impression on the mind, touch, please, delight, astonish, shock; to kill
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
ditch
fossa (general term): fossa incllis: incile (for water; e.g., in the field). A small ditch, fossula: a covered ditch, fossa caeca (opposed to fossa patens): to make a ditch, fossam facere, ducere (in the Silver age, fossam premere, deprimere, percutere; Vid: Burmann Quint., Decl., 3, 16, p. 72: incile ducere, Ulp.): to open or clear out ditches, incilia aperire: to make a ditch before anything, fossam praeducere; around anything, fossa cingere or circumdare aliquid.
ditch v.
fossam (fossas) ducere, facere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for ditch?
- The usual Latin words for “ditch” are fossa, incīlis, fossula; also dūcō, dēprimō, percutiō. 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.