English → Latin
“drone” in Latin
fūcusseaweed; orchil, orchella weed, Roccella tinctoria; red dye derived from it; (in general) dyestuff; rougebombusa buzz or humming sound; a hollow and deep sound; a bumblebeesusurrōto hum, buzz, murmur, mutter, whisperfuscusswarthy, dusky, dark; husky, hoarse
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
drone
A bee, fucus.
A sluggard, homo languori et desidiae deditus; homo deses.
Humming sound, bombus (Varr.; of bees): bombi or raucus bombus (e.g., of trumpets, etc.).
drone v.
To live in idleness, segne otium terere; socordia atque desidia bonum otium conterere; propter desidiam in otio vivere.
To emit a dull, humming sound, bombum facere (PROP., of bees; Varr.): bombitare (of bees; Auct., Carm. Philom., 36): raucum bombum or raucisonos bombos efflare (of instruments; Lucr.: will do, therefore, for a bagpipe): susurrare (of bees; Verg., Georg., 4, 260): *fusca or obtusa voce susurrare, aliquid decantare, etc. (of reciting in a droning voice).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for drone?
- The usual Latin words for “drone” are fūcus, bombus, susurrō; also fuscus. 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.