English → Latin
“locality” in Latin
locusplace (referring to a specific location); a passage of literature; opportunity; cause; occasion; groundssinōto let; to permit; to allow; to put; to lay; to set downurbsa city, walled town; the City, Romecircumspiciōto look around, over, for, upon; to survey, examine or review; to seek or search for, look about for something with desi
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
locality
Nature of a place or places, loci or locorum nalura.
Situation, loci, or locorum, situs: a good locality, opportunitas loci: to inspect the localities, situm (urbis) circumspicere (Liv., 9, 28, 3).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for locality?
- The usual Latin words for “locality” are locus, sinō, urbs; also circumspiciō. 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.