What is the Latin word for mast?

The usual Latin words for “mast” are malus, glāns, querneus; also fāgeus, fāgus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“mast” in Latin

malusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, m glānsan acorn, nut; any acorn-shaped fruit; a beechnut, chestnut; an acorn-shaped ball of lead or clay, hurled at the enemy; querneusof oak, oaken fāgeusof beech; beechen fāgusbeech tree

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

mast

(of a ship)(of a ship), malus (☞ arbor mali, or simply arbor, is poetic): to set up a mast, malum erigere (opposed to demittere): to climb the mast, in malum scandere.

mast

(fruit)(fruit), glans (quernea, of the oak; fagea or fagi, of the beech).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for mast?: The usual Latin words for “mast” are malus, glāns, querneus; also fāgeus, fāgus. 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.