English → Latin
“ferry” in Latin
trānsmittōto transmit, send, carry, or convey across, over or through; to send off, despatch; to let go; to go or pass over or acrtrānseōto traverse; cross, cross over; go across or over; pass, pass through, over or by; to defect, go over (to an adverse sidtrānsgrediorto go beyond, exceed; to step beyond, across or over, climb or pass over, cross; to go over to another party, deserttrānsvehōto carry, bear, convey across or over; to transport; to pass bytrānsportōto carry across; to transportpontusthe sea, the deep; a wave (of the sea)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
ferry
TRANS., e.g., to ferry over, trajicere: transmittere: transvehere: transportare.
INTRANS., transmittere, or transire, or transjicere, or transgredi; Vid: SYN. and phrases in To CROSS.
ferry s.
Place where a passage-boat plies, *locus, ubi scapha est ad trajiciendum comparata.
Ferry-boat, scapha major: ponto (Caes., B. C. 3, 29): ratis ad trajiciendum comparata (a raft for ferrying or crossing over).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for ferry?
- The usual Latin words for “ferry” are trānsmittō, trānseō, trānsgredior; also trānsvehō, trānsportō, pontus. 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.