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“furrow” in Latin
sulcusA furrow made by a plow.; Ploughing.; A long, narrow trench; a ditch.strī̆ganightmare; vampire; witch; hagscamnumstool, step, bench; ridge (of earth formed by ploughing); breadth of a fieldrūgaa crease in the face, wrinkle; a crease, fold, plait, wrinkle, corrugation of any kind; a streetporculētuma field divided into bedagōto act, to behave; to do; to make (something that does not continue to exist after the maker stops)dūcōto lead, guide, conduct, lead away; to take; to draw, pullsulcōto plough, furrow, turn up; to carve, cleave; to sail over, traverse, pass through, crossfrōnsthe forehead, brow, front; the brow or countenance as an indicator of the feelings; as the mirror of a person's characte
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
furrow s.
In the soil, sulcus (general term): striga (a furrow drawn from south to north): scamnum (from east to west; i. e., across the field; Vid :, Script., rei agr., p. 38, and 198, Goes.): a field divided by furrows, porculetum (Plin., 17, 22, 35, No. 9, § 171): to make or draw a furrow, sulcum facere, agere, ducere; sulcare; plur., sulcos, etc., facere (as the act of men); sulcum imprimere (as the effect of the plough: ☞ porca signifies the soil itself that is thrown up between two furrows; if these furrows were at greater distances from one another than usual, the name of such a one was lira; ☞ Voss, Verg., Georg., 1, 47): divided by such furrows, imporcatus: ploughed with the furrows lengthwise, strigatus (opposed to scamnatus, having them across from west to east. Terms of the Agrimensores).
Wrinkle, ruga. Vid: WRINKLE.
furrow v.
[Vid. FURROW, subst.][Vid. FURROW, subst.]
With reference to the face; e.g., your brow is becoming furrowed, vultus tuus colligit rugas et trahit [al. attrahit] frontem, Sen., Benef., 6, 7, 1): a brow somewhat furrowed, frons attractior (Sen., Benef., 4, 31, 3).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for furrow?
- The usual Latin words for “furrow” are sulcus, strī̆ga, scamnum; also rūga, porculētum, agō. 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.