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“fat” in Latin
pinguisfat, plump; thick, dense; dull, insipid, not pungentopīmusfat, rich, plump, corpulent; fertile, fruitful (land)obedōto eat, eat away, or devour; to waste away or become leannitidusshining, polished, glittering; handsome, beautiful, good-looking; healthy-looking, well conditionedsagīnōto fatten (animals); to feed or nourishadipātusFilled or prepared with fat; fatty, greasy; coarse, grosslūculentusfull of light, brilliant, bright, splendid; distinguished, excellentisthis or that man, woman or thing; he, she, it, they (previously introduced); this or that [man, woman or thing] (as a noPhaedrusPhaedrus (an Athenian aristocrat, friend of Socrates); Phaedrus (a Latin fabulist)adepsfat, lard, grease; corpulence, obesity; sapwood
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
fat adj.
pinguis (fat, PROP., of persons and animals; then of that which has unctuous parts, as butter, wine, etc.; or, that abounds in nutritious juices, as land, seed, fodder, etc.; opposed to macer): opimus (abounding in nutritious juices, stout and fat, of persons and animals and their members; opposed to gracilis: then, figuratively, fat in respect of produce, of land, etc.; opposed to sterilis: hence agri opimi et fertiles; then figuratively = that brings in much): obesus (become fat from over-eating; unwieldy, gross; opposed to gracilis, of petsons; and opposed to strigosus, of animals): nitidus (shining, sleek, abounding in fat, so that no projecting bones disturb the smoothness of the body, λιπαρός; Vid: Nep., Eum., 5, 6): perpastus (PROP., well-fed; e.g., canis, Phaedrus, 3, 6, 2): saginatus (fatted): adipatus (containing lard or fat; of food): luculentus (considerable; as an office, etc.). Somewhat fat, subpinguis: to make or render fat, pinguem facere or reddere; opimare; obesare [Col.; al. obescare]; saginare; farcire (to fatten birds): to grow or become fat, pinguescere; nitescere: to be fat, pinguem, etc. esse; nitere (Vid: above on nitidus): to be too fat, nimia pinguitudine laborare: to grow so fat, that etc., usque adeo pinguescere, ut, etc. (Cato, ap. Varr.).
fat s.
adeps, m., Plin.; mostly f., Cels.; c., Col. (the softer fat of animals which do not ruminate): sebum, sevum (the firmer fat of ruminating animals, tallow; adeps Cassii, suillus, anserinus; sebum vitulinum): arvina (tallow, in as far as used to grease something; clipeos tergent arvina, Verg.): pingue (the oily fat; pingue inter carnem cutemque, Plin.): laridum, lardum (lard; bacon).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for fat?
- The usual Latin words for “fat” are pinguis, opīmus, obedō; also nitidus, sagīnō, adipātus. 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.