English → Latin
“land” in Latin
terradry land (as opposed to watery parts of the Earth); ground, floor (the surface of the land); earth, soil, dirt, clay, clsōlusalone, sole, only, by oneself with no others around; solitary, uninhabitedagerfield; acre; land; estate; park; territoryarvumfield; farm landsegesa field sown or planted with wheat, oats, or barley; a field of standing or growing wheat, oats, or barley, etc.; a cropnovālisunploughed or fallow land (or land ploughed for the first time)fundusbottom; farm, piece of land, estate, demesne; groundrēgiuskingly, regal, royal (of or pertaining to a king); magnificent, splendid, distinguished (worthy of a king)prōvinciaoffice, official duty, command, formal responsibility given to a magistrate; a task, responsibility, burden; the office pāgusdistrict, canton, region; countryside (rural area outside of a city); countryfolk, rural community
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
land s.
As opposed to sea, terra: dry land, aridum: the main land, terra continens: continens: by land, terra (generally opposed to mari, classe); terrestri itinere, pedestri itinere, pedibus (of travellers, soldiers on march, etc.; opposed to classe, navibus): by land and by water [Vid: WATER]: from the land (e.g., to see anything, etc.), ex terra: from land, a terra: to gain the land, terram capere; ad terram pervenire: to put out from land, navem solvere; e portu solvere; solvere: to coast along the land, oram legere: that is (or lives) on land, terrester (opposed to maritimus).
Ground for tillage, soil, terra (soil; general term); solum (surface of the soil): ager, agellus (soil for tillage); arvum (that is sown; corn land); seges (growing corn; sometimes a cornfield); novalis ager, or simply novalis, novale (ploughed land, newly broken up); fundus (a landed estate): unbroken land, ager ferus (Festi) or ager silvester (opposed to ager cultus, Col., Praef., 25): uncultivated land, ager rudis: light land, levis terra (Varr., R.R., 2, 6, fin): rich land, ager crassus, pinguis (opposed to ager jejunus): arable land, campus arabilis: good land, ager bene natus (opposed to ager male natus, Varr., R.R., 1, 6, 1): impoverished land, solum defatigatum et effetum: fruitful land, ager frugifer, ferox: to till the land, agrum colere: of or relating to land, agrarius: rich in land, agrosus.
Region, district, country, terra (belonging to the citizens of a state, etc.); regio (in respect of extent and climate); provincia (a country subject to Roman power; ☞ ditio, in this sense, is not Latin): ager (a possession of a private person, or a territory belonging to a small people): pagus (a district consisting of several villages): patria (native land). In connection with the name of the inhabitants, especially with the historians, “land” is expressed either by the simple name of the inhabitants, or by fines (i. e., boundaries): in the land of the Etrurians, in Etruscis, in Etruscorum finibus, or in agro Etrusco: the enemy’s land, terra, or ager, or fines hostium; terra hostilis: to drive anyone out of the land, aliquem civitate pellere, expellere, ejicere.
land v.
INTR. To go ashore, (e navi) exire; (in terram) exire; (e navi) egredi; escendere, escensionem facere: to land at a place, egredi in aliquem locum, rarely in aliquo loco: to land there, eo egredi (but sometimes ibi, as ibi egressi). TRANS. To put ashore, exponere (the proper word of persons and things): to land troops, milites, copias, exercitum exponere, with or without (e) navibus, in terram, in litore; copias e classe educere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for land?
- The usual Latin words for “land” are terra, sōlus, ager; also arvum, seges, novālis. 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.