English → Latin
“garden” in Latin
hortusgardenhortulusa small gardenhortēnsisgardenhortulānusof or belonging to a garden, garden-; gardenercustōsa guard, protector, watchman; a guardian, tutor; a jailer
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
garden s.
hortus: horti (hortus mostly of a vegetable or fruit garden; horti, of a pleasure garden or ornamental garden, portioned off into beds, etc.; Vid: Cic., Lael., 2, 7; 7, 25): a small garden, hortulus. Belonging to a garden, hortensis: to lay out a garden, hortum aedificare: a garden already formed or laid out, hortus institutus: one who works in a garden, hortulanus (late): the keeper or overlooker of a garden, horti (hortorum) custos; custos horto fructus servandi gratia impositus (one who guards the fruits). Garden-seat, sedile (e.g., e marmore; ☞ Plin., Ep., 5, 6, 40); stibadium (of a semi-circular shape, ib. §36): the cultivation of a garden, [Vid: HORTICULTURE]: a bed in a garden, areola; hortus (so far as it is hedged in): a walk in a garden, ambulatio horti (hortorum); xystus (a walk planted on both sides with shrubs): garden tools, *instrumenta hortensia: a garden-knife, falx (in the shape of a sickle, for trimming trees, with putatoria or arborea; Vid: Pallad., 1, 43, 2); scalprum (with a straight edge; hence, Col., 4, 25, 1, the straight part of the edge of the falx is also, called scalprum).
garden v.
hortum colere (Ov.). To be fond of gardening, *hortorum cultu delectari.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for garden?
- The usual Latin words for “garden” are hortus, hortulus, hortēnsis; also hortulānus, custōs. 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.