English → Latin
“litter” in Latin
lectīcalectica, a kind of litter typically including bedding, curtains, and four legs; litter, any couch or bed carried by portstrāmentumstraw, litter; thatch; packsaddlefētūrabearing of young, breeding; offspring, broodsubolēsshoot, sucker; offspring, race, progeny; baby, infant, childprōgeniēsrace, family, progeny, lineage, descentturbaturmoil, disorder, stir, disturbance, tumult, uproar, hubbub, commotion, trouble, confusion, disarray, brawl; mob, crowdtrīcaetrifles, toys, trumpery; hindrances, impedimentsstrāmenlitter (straw for bedding)substrāmenwhat is strewn underedōto eat
The English word litter itself goes back to Latin lectus, through lectuāria.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
litter s.
A kind of sedan bed, lectica; sella gestatoria (in the lectica the person was recumbent, in the sella gestatoria more in a sitting posture).
Straw laid under animals for a bed, etc., stramentum (stramen, or substramen, poetical).
Straw for a covering, stramentum: ☞ storea or storia, is a covering of plaited straw, a mat.
Young produced at a birth, fetus, fetura, suboles, progenies.
Things in confusion, turbae, tricae: to make a litter, omnia miscere, turbare, or miscere ac turbare.
litter v.
To spread straw as a bed for cattle, (stramentum) pecori substernere (Plin.).
To cover with things negligently, miscere ac turbare.
(Of animals) (Of animals) to bring forth young, fetus procreare; fetum fundere, edere (Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for litter?
- The usual Latin words for “litter” are lectīca, strāmentum, fētūra; also subolēs, prōgeniēs, turba. 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.