English → Latin
“gate” in Latin
portagate, especially of a city; entrance, passage, door; way, meansiānuaany double-doored entrance (e.g. a domestic door or a gate to a temple or city); an entrance, entry, accesssumto be, exist; there be; to govalvadouble or folding door (in plural); one leaf of such doors
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
gate
porta (gate of a city, camp, etc., whether with reference to the opening, or to the wooden frame or leaves): fores portae (the wooden gates; i. e., leaves): janua: fores (the large door of a house [janua = fores in liminibus profanarum aedium, Cic., N.D., 2, 27]; janua, as entrance; fores, as the wooden leaves that close it): valvae (are the wooden leaves [fores] of stately buildings, temples, etc.). To open the gate, portam patefacere; fores portae aperire; portae fores recludere. To shut the gate, fores portae objicere (to put it to); portam claudere (to fasten it to): to break down a gate, portam refringere; claustra portae effringere: to cut through, hew down, etc., a gate, portas excidere (☞ not exscindere): to block up a gate, portas obstruere (e.g., with turf, cespitibus): to enter by the gate, porta introire: to go out by a gate, exire per portam: to go out of a gate, pedem efferre porta: to stream out of the gate, porta effundi or se effundere: before the gate, ad portam (at it); extra portam (on the outside of it).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for gate?
- The usual Latin words for “gate” are porta, iānua, sum; also valva. 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.