English → Latin
“fence” in Latin
saepēshedge, fenceindāgōan encircling, enclosing of wild animals using nets; a surrounding of enemies; an investigation, examiningsaeptumA fence, enclosure, wall.; Any enclosed place, an enclosure.mūruswall, city wall(s), (usually of a city, as opposed to pariēs); mounds made without ditchescohorsa court; a farmyard or enclosure; a retinue or escortmāceriawall or enclosure made of brick or clay; wall (especially one enclosing a garden)tūtēlatutelage, guardianship; dependent, client; watching, keeping, charge, caremūnīmentumA defence or defense, fortification, protection; intrenchment; rampart, bulwark; fortress.; A shelter, defence, protectidīcōto say, talk, speak, utter, mention; to declare, state; to tell
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
fence s.
sepes: sepimentum (general term): indago (a temporary fence round part of a forest): septum (the enclosure, but also the fence that encloses; in this sense usually, in Cic., always, plur.: conseptum seems to mean the enclosure only): murus (wall): cohors or chors (for cattle; both stationary and moveable fences, as well as the place enclosed by them): maceria (a wall made of clay or loam round a vineyard): tutela (general term for a protection or defence; used by Varr., of hedges, de septis... dicam. Earum tutelarum, etc.): munimentum (that by which one defends one’s self or a place). A natural fence, naturale sepimentum vivae sepis, or viva sepes only (of a hedge). To make fences, facere septa: to pull down fences, septa revellere (Cic.): by what fences shall we keep in such wild beasts as these? quibus septis tam immanes beluas continebimus? to make a fence round anything, sepire or consepire aliquid; round a forest, silvam indagine cingere, munire: to make a fence all round, circumsepire; septo circumdare; cingere munimento sepis: a place surrounded by a fence, or fences, septum, conseptum, etc.
Fencing, Vid: FENCE, TRANS.
To enclose with a fence, sepire: consepire aliquid (Vid: in last article). To fence a space in with strong stakes, locum robustis stipitibus sepire (Inscr. Orell.).
To guard, to fortify, Vid: FENCE, INTRANS.
To use the sword, etc., armis uti.
If for practice, batuere: to have learned to fence or fencing, *armis uti didicisse: to fence well, armis optime uti.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for fence?
- The usual Latin words for “fence” are saepēs, indāgō, saeptum; also mūrus, cohors, māceria. 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.