English → Latin
“glass-trade” in Latin
vitrumglass; dyer's woad, a plant used for dying blue (Isatis tinctoria); woad, a blue dye used by the Britons made from that vēnditōto offer for sale (again and again); to try to sell; to betrayvitreusvitreous, glassy; translucent; colored like iron(II) oxide in glass, colored aqua (glossed with viridis)vēndōto sell, vendValeriusName of a patrician Roman gens.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
glass-trade
by circumlocution with vitrum (general term), or vitrea (articles made of glass) vendere or venditare (after Gell., 15, 20; Valerius, Max., 3, 4, extr., 2).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for glass-trade?
- The usual Latin words for “glass-trade” are vitrum, vēnditō, vitreus; also vēndō, Valerius. 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.