English → Latin
“gulf” in Latin
maritimusOf or pertaining to the sea; marine, maritime.; changeable, inconstantvertexwhirl, whirlpool, eddy, vortex; eddy of wind or flame, whirlwind, coil of flame; top, crown of the headvorāgōabyss, chasm, whirlpool, deep hole, pitgurgeswhirlpool, eddy; gulf; abyssprofundusdeep, profound; intense, extreme, profound; immoderate; boundless, vast; bottomlessmaresea
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
gulf
A bay, sinus maris or maritimus; from the context sinus only.
A whirlpool, vortex.
Abyss, vorago: gurges: profundum, with or without maris [SYN. in ABYSS]: ☞ barathrum is to be avoided in prose, since only Vitr. [10, 6 (22), 11] uses it, in speaking of a pit dug by the hands of men). In the midst of the forum there appeared a yawning gulf, forum medium specu vasto collapsum est in immensam altitudinem.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for gulf?
- The usual Latin words for “gulf” are maritimus, vertex, vorāgō; also gurges, profundus, mare. 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.