English → Latin
“harbor” in Latin
portusharbor, port; haven, refuge, asylum, retreat; warehouserefugiumrefugeperfugiumrefuge, shelter; asylum (political)nāvigōto sail, navigate, seafare, embarkperveniōto come, arrive; to reach, attain, come topervehōto carry, bear or convey throughaccipiōto receive, accept, take; to receive, accept, or take in something so as to alter one’s mental or physical state; to heaexcipiōto take out, extract, pull out; to except, exempt from, exclude; to rescue, releaserecipiōto take back, (i.e., regain possession of something); to recapture; to receive, accept, admit
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
harbor s.
portus (PROP. and figuratively): refugium: perfugium (figuratively, asylum). (The words are found in this connection and order.) portus et refugium; portus et perfugium. To be in harbor, in portu esse or navigare (also, figuratively, for “to be in safety”): to reach a harbor, in portum venire, or pervenire, or pervehi; portum capere (of ships and navigators; the latter, if with trouble; also, figuratively, for “port of rest,” capere portum otii); in portum invehi: portum or in portum intrare (of navigators: the latter also with hostile intent); in portum et perfugium pervehi (figuratively): to drive a vessel into harbor, navem in portum conjicere or compellere: to enter the harbor from the open sea, ex alto in portum invehi: to steer toward the harbor, portum petere; ex alto portum tenere: to be driven to some harbor, in portum deferri (of vessels and sailors): to take refuge in some harbor, confugere in portum (also figuratively; e.g., in portum otii): to sail out of a harbor, e portu solvere or proficisci or exire: to make a harbor, portum facere or constituere: an island that has two harbors, cincta duobus portubus insula: a place where many harbors are met with, portuosus (general term); portubus distinctus (well furnished with ports; e.g., a country, regio): without harbors, importuosus: the mouth of a harbor, portus ostium; portus ostium et aditus; portus aditus atque os; fauces portus.
harbor v.
hospitio accipere or excipere aliquem: hospitio domum ad se recipere aliquem: hospitium alicui praebere (to receive into one’s house): in domum suam recipere aliquem: tecto accipere or recipere aliquem: tectum praebere alicui (to receive under one’s roof; accipere, as a friend; excipere and recipere, as protector, etc.). To be harbored by anybody, esse in hospitio apud aliquem; hospitio alicujus uti.
To sojourn; Vid: To DWELL, To SOJOURN.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for harbor?
- The usual Latin words for “harbor” are portus, refugium, perfugium; also nāvigō, perveniō, pervehō. 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.