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“lot” in Latin

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

lot
PROP., sors (general term, also = lottery ticket): sortitio, sortitus (a drawing of lots): by lot, sorte; sortitione; sortito (after the lot has decided): to cause anything to be decided by lot, aliquid ad sortem revocare; aliquid sorti committere or permittere; aliquid in sortem conjicere: they caused it to be decided by lot, which of them, etc., sortiti sunt, uter (with a subjunctive): without lot, extra sortem (in an election, etc.): to consult lots, sortibus consulere de aliqua re or de aliquo: I obtain anything by lot, aliquid sorte mihi evenit; aliquid sortior: to make the lots equal, sortes aequare: to cast the lots into the urn or vessel, sortes in hydriam (or urnam) conjicere, dejicere; sortes in sitellam ponere (general term): nomina in urnam conjicere (if the lots contain names, e.g., in decimation, in conscription, etc.): to draw a lot, sortem ducere: to draw lots, sortiri (general term): sortitionem facere (to cause to be decided by lot): to draw lots among one another, sortiri inter se: to draw lots respecting anything or person, sortiri aliquid or aliquem and (in the Silver Age) de re (general term); aliquid ad sortem revocare, aliquid sorti committere, permittere (instead of deciding it in any other way): to draw lots again about any person or thing, subsortiri aliquid or aliquem (e.g., judicem, in the place of one previously chosen, Cic.): a lot falls or comes out, sors exit, excidit: when my lot was the first that was drawn, cum sors mea prima exiisset: the lot falls to me, sors me contingit.
Figuratively. Position or circumstances in life, fortune, sors; fortuna; fortunae (circumstances, good or bad): a fortunate lot, fortuna florens; fortunae secundre: an unfortunate lot, fortuna misera: the common lot, sors communis: this is the common lot, haec omnibus accidunt: to be contented with one’s lot, sorte sua contentum vivere (☞ sorte sua gaudere is rather poetical): not to be contented with one’s lot, fortunas suas accusare: I have a happy lot, bene mecum agitur: I have an unhappy lot, vitam miseram dego: to pity anybody’s lot, alicujus sortem miserari.
Lot
Lot or Loth, indeclinable, (m.)

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for lot?
The usual Latin words for “lot” are sors, sortītiō, sortior; also fortūna, sortītus, permittō. 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.