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“frontier” in Latin
fīnisend; limit, border, bound boundary, frontier; boundaries, bounds, frontiers; by extension, territory, region, landscōnfīnisbordering on, adjoining, contiguouspōnōto place; to put; to lay; to ordain; to appoint; to make (something); to set up; to pitch (camp)flūmena river; flowing water; a stream, flood; flow, fluency, fluidity
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
frontier
in the plur., fines: *locus utrumque sub finem situs (the place where two countries are divided, after Hor., Sat., 2, 1, 35) [Vid: BOUNDARY]: confinium (the place where two territories, etc., touch one another, and which thus determines the border). To dwell on a frontier, utrumque sub finem habitare (after Hor., Sat., 2, 1, 35): a frontier fortress, castellum finem sub utrumque structum or positum (after Hor., Sat., 2, 1, 35): a fontier river, flumen, quod utrumque sub finem fertur (that flows along the frontier of two countries, after Hor., Sat., 2, 1, 35): a ditch, dividing the fontiers, fossa finem sub utrumque ducta (after Hor., Sat., 2, 1, 35): a fontier town, urbs utrumque sub finem sita (after Hor., Sat., 2, 1, 35): soldiers quartered on the fontiers, milites limitanei (late): a dispute about fontiers, controversia finalis: jurgium finale (Leg. Agr., p. 341 and 342, Goes.): to have or to be involved in such differences, de finibus ambigere: there is some misunderstanding on the question respecting the fontier, de finibus controversia est.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for frontier?
- The usual Latin words for “frontier” are fīnis, cōnfīnis, pōnō; also flūmen. 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.