English → Latin
“hoard” in Latin
acervusmass, heap, pile, stack, cluster; treasure; consonant cluster (pronounceable group of consonants that occur together)aesmoney, pay, fee, fare; copper, bronze, brass; payment, debtaurumgold (as mineral or metal); gold (colour); any object made of gold, such as a gold coin or a gold ringpecūniamoney; wealth; cash, ready money, liquid wealthcoacervōto heap or pile up; to amass, collect or gather together; to add, sum or totalcōnstruōto heap, bring, collect or gather together; to construct, build, fabricate, erect; to connect, constructcondōto put together; to build, establish; form, fashion; make, construct; to put away, store or treasure up; preserve; intersēpōnōto put aside, banish; to pick out, select; to disregardaccumulōto add to a heap, heap or pile up, accumulate, load, amass; to heap up earth over or around the roots of plants, trench dīvitiaeriches, wealth, affluence; a fortune
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
hoard s.
acervus (e.g., aeris, auri, pecuniae).
hoard v.
coacervare (to heap together; pecuniam, Cic.; the simple acervare not Cic.): construere (to pile up, divitias, Hor.; acervos nummorum, Cic.). (The words are found in this connection and order.) construere et coacervare (e.g., pecuniam, Cic.): undique conquirere (to hunt for it every where; pecuniam, opes): condere (to put in a secret place for preservation; aurum): seponere (to put aside, to lay by, especially = to hoard for a particular purpose; ad or in aliquid; quod ex istis... rebus receptum est ad illud fanum [sc. ornandum] sepositum putare, Cic.; pecuniam in aedificationem templi, Liv.): accumulare (to add more and more to a hoard already existing, addit, auget, accumulat, Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for hoard?
- The usual Latin words for “hoard” are acervus, aes, aurum; also pecūnia, coacervō, cōnstruō. 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.