English → Latin
“elbow” in Latin
cubōto lie down, recline; to sleep; lie asleep; to recline at table (for a meal)vertōto turn, turn oneself, direct one's way, to turn about, turn around, revolve; to turn upside down, overturn, overthrow, ōraborder, rim, frontier, limit, edge; coast, coastline, seacoast, shoreline; region, countryancōnThe elbow; The arm of a workman's square; A console that appears to support a cornicelinguathe tongue; a tongue, utterance, language, speechlingulatongue, a narrow strip of land; tongue, a thong, flap, strap, or latchet of a shoe; lingula, a Roman unit of liquid measconvīvaa guest at a banquet
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
elbow
cubitum. To lean on one’s elbow, in cubitum inniti: corpus in cubitum levare.
IMPR. Bending, cubitum (e.g., orae, Plin.): versura (outward bending at the angle of a wall; Vitr.); of a chair, ancon; of land, lingua: lingula.
To be at anybody’s elbow (= to be near him), sub manibus alicujus esse (of persons; Vid: Planc. in Cic., Epp., 10, 23, 10; ad manum or prae manibus esse are of things): to have anybody at one’s elbow, aliquem ad manum habere (e.g., servum).
elbow v.
cubitis depulsare (e.g., aliquem de via, Plaut., Stich., 2, 2, 13); cubitis trudere hinc et inde (e.g., convivas, Martisalis). To elbow one’s way, cubitis de via depulsare homines; penetrare per densam turbam.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for elbow?
- The usual Latin words for “elbow” are cubō, vertō, ōra; also ancōn, lingua, lingula. 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.