English → Latin
“enclosure” in Latin
saeptumA fence, enclosure, wall.; Any enclosed place, an enclosure.cohorsa court; a farmyard or enclosure; a retinue or escortinclūsiōconfinement, imprisonmentconclūsiōblockade, siege; conclusionhomō̆human, person, man; male human being, man; term of address to male peers, especially by another man: man, fellow, mate,
The English word enclosure itself goes back to Latin claudō, through inclūdō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
enclosure
septum; conseptum: locus septus: cohors or cors; in MSS. also chors (hurdles for cattle, and a place fenced round with hurdles, etc., whether moveable or not).
Act of enclosing, inclusio (act of shutting up; e.g., hominis): conclusio (blockade).
What is enclosed in a letter or parcel, quod epistolae suae junxerat, or adjunxerat aliquis; quod in eundem fasciculum additum est (Vid: Traj., ap. Plin., Ep. 10, 93, in; Cic., Att., 12, 53, extr.); epistola cum altera conjuncta, or alteri juncta (letter enclosed in another): epistola in eundem fasciculum addita. I shall never write home without sending an enclosure for you, neque domum unquam ad meos litteras mittam, quin adjungam eas, quas tibi reddi velim.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for enclosure?
- The usual Latin words for “enclosure” are saeptum, cohors, inclūsiō; also conclūsiō, homō̆. 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.