English → Latin
“louse” in Latin
pediculusA little foot.; A footstalk or pedicel of fruit or leaf.pēsa place to tread one's foot: territory, ground, soil; a rope attached to a sail in order to set; tempo, pace, time
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
louse s.
pediculus; pedis (Plaut.). To be eaten up with lice, pediculorum multitudine corpori innascentium animam efflare (after Plin., 7, 51, 52).
louse v.
*liberare aliquem pediculis; *pediculos alicui legere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for louse?
- The usual Latin words for “louse” are pediculus, pēs. 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.