English → Latin
“hut” in Latin
casahut, cottage, cabin; rural property, small farm; dwelling, residence, housetuguriuma hut, cottage, shack; any primitive dwellingmapāliahuts of the Africansumbrāculumshade, shelter; parasol, umbrella; bower, arbour (shady retreat)officīnaworkshop, manufactory; a poultry house, henhouse; an apothecary's, a pharmacy
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
hut
casa (a hut so far as it contains its inhabitant with his goods; a small, poor house): tugurium (a hut so far as it protects against wind and rain; according to Voss., Verg., Ecl., 1, 68, a shed, the roof of which, made of straw, reeds, bushes, or sods, without any wall, reached to the ground, such as herdsmen and shepherds had in the open country): mapale (of which only the plur. mapalia occurs, the small huts of the African nomades, which they carried about with them on waggons; a Punic word): umbraculum (an arbor, bower): officina (a workshop).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for hut?
- The usual Latin words for “hut” are casa, tugurium, mapālia; also umbrāculum, officīna. 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.