English → Latin
“hive” in Latin
alvusbelly, bowels, paunch; excrement; flux, diarrhoea; stomach, digestive organs; womb; matrix (of a fruit)alveushollow, cavity; hollow, deep vessel, basket, trough, tray; deep cavity, excavation; hold, hullalveāriumbeehive; kneading troughtegōto cover; to clothe; to conceal, hide, protectvāsculuma small vessel or container; a small beehive; a seed-capsule or seed-vesselapisbee (insect of the clade Anthophila)domiciliumA habitation, dwelling, domicile, abode, home.apiāriusan apiarist, an apiculturist, a beekeepermellāriusOf or pertaining to honey.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
hive s.
alvus or alveus: alvearium: tectum (apium): also vasculum (small hive; Pallad., Jun., 7, 8); and, from context, domicilium: apiarium (Col.). Sometimes mellarium (according to Varr.). To put bees into a hive, apes in alvearium congerere (Cic., Fragm.): to keep the hive, alveo se continere: to make a hive, alvearium facere or (†) vimine texere: the door or mouth of a hive, foramen, quo exitus et introitus datur apibus (Col., 9, 7, 5). To place hives on raised frames, three feet high, super podia ternis alta pedibus alvearia collocare (Pallad., 1, 38).
hive v.
(apes) in alvearium congerere (Cic., Fragm. oecon.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for hive?
- The usual Latin words for “hive” are alvus, alveus, alveārium; also tegō, vāsculum, apis. 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.