English → Latin
“green-grocer” in Latin
vēnditōto offer for sale (again and again); to try to sell; to betrayagrestisrural; rustic; wild (of or pertaining to land, fields or the countryside); clownish; rude; uncultivated; coarse; savage;vēndōto sell, vendValeriusName of a patrician Roman gens.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
green-grocer
qui, quae olera (agrestia) vendit or venditat (vid Gell., 15, 20; Valerius, Max., 3, 4, extr. 2).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for green-grocer?
- The usual Latin words for “green-grocer” are vēnditō, agrestis, vēndō; also 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.