English → Latin
“harvest” in Latin
metōto reap, harvest; to cut, crop or snip off; to cut through, severquaestusgain, acquisition, profit, advantage; occupation, employment, jobfruorto enjoy; to derive pleasure from; to engage (in)dēmetōto reap, cut or mow; to cut down; to pick (fruit)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
harvest
messis (PROP., the time of harvest, and the crops gathered in): quaestus: fructus (IMPROP., profit, gain). An abundant harvest, messis opima; ubertas in fructibus percipiendis (abundance of crops). To be engaged in harvest, messem facere: harvest-work, opera messoria: to reap the harvest, messem facere (general term); metere, demetere (of reaping the corn): no harvest was reaped, messis nulla fuerat: to reap a harvest of anything (IMPROP.), fructum ex aliqua re capere, percipere; fructum alicujus rei ferre: of applause, gratitude, etc., laudem, gratiam ferre.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for harvest?
- The usual Latin words for “harvest” are metō, quaestus, fruor; also dēmetō. 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.