English → Latin
“gutter” in Latin
canālisa pipe, spout, channel, conduit; a gutter, ditch; a groove, channel, canal, conduit, ductcanāliculusA small channel, pipe or gutter.; A splint for broken bones, gutter-splint.colliciaeguttercatusclever, intelligent, sagacious, clear-thinking; cunning, crafty, sly; shrill, sharp, clear-sounding
The English word gutter itself goes back to Latin gutta.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
gutter s.
canalis or (if a small one) canaliculus (general term): canalis, quae excipit e tegulis aquam coelestem (pipe of a roof; Vitr., 3, 5, 15): tegulae colliciares (the tiles in which the rain-water runs down; Cato, R.R., 14, 4): colliciae (for draining fields, as well as on a roof).
gutter v.
TRANS., striare.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for gutter?
- The usual Latin words for “gutter” are canālis, canāliculus, colliciae; also catus. 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.