English → Latin
“flap” in Latin
laciniaan edge or flap of a garment; dewlap; a small piece of something (especially land)ictusa beating time, a beat; a beat of the pulse; an attack, shotstŏmăcăcēa disease of the gumsauriculaexternal ear, earlap; earālaa wing (appendage of an animal's body that enables it to fly); the armpit (the upper and under part of the arm, where itpennawing (of natural or supernatural creatures); feather, especially a flight-feather; pinion; quill penplaudōto strike, beat, clap; to applaud; to clap one's hands in token of approbation; to approvedēpendeōto hang down, from or on; to wait for; to be dependent on or governed byflaccēscōto wilt or wither, droop or languish; to (begin to) flagaliusother; another; any other; else; different
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
flap s.
lacinia (PROP., of the flap or any extremity of a garment; but IMPROP., anything that hangs down loose. Thus Plin., 8, 50, 76, calls the fleshy part of the neck of a goat, laciniae a cervice dependentes; in a similar manner Linn. names the parts of a flower that hang down loose “laciniae;” so the lobes [λοβοι] of the liver were laciniae; but the flaps of the ear, auriculae).
A slight blow struck with anything, ictus or ictus levis (also of a flap of the wings, alae, pennarum, both Plin.).
The flaps (disease in a horse’s mouth), stomacace (στομακάκη], Plin., 25, 3, 6).
flap v.
TRANS., plaudere: To flap the wings, alis or pennis plaudere; alas quatere cum clangore (†): to flap off flies, muscas abigere.
INTRANS., dependere (to hang down): flaccescere (to flap down; of sails no longer extended by the wind). “A flapping hat,” *pileus labrosus (after ferramentum fecit in extrema parte labrosum, Cels.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for flap?
- The usual Latin words for “flap” are lacinia, ictus, stŏmăcăcē; also auricula, āla, penna. 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.