English → Latin
“member” in Latin
articulusa point connecting various parts of the body; joint, knot, knuckle.; a limb, member, finger; a short clause; a single woartusnarrow; close; fitted; confined; dense; severe; strict; scanty; briefmembrumlimb of the body; member.; the penis (membrum virīle); a portion, divisionincīsiōcutting into, incision.; a pause in a verse, caesuraincidōto fall or drop; to fall upon, meet, come upon (by chance), happen on, fall in with; to fall upon, attack, assaultvirman (adult male human); brave or courageous man, hero, warrior; husband
The English word member itself goes back to Latin membrum.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
member
A component part of an animal body, articulus (a joint which connects single members): artus (plur., the limbs, as connected with the body by joints and sinews: the sing. does not occur until the later poets of the Silver Age): membrum: pars corporis (any part of the human body in respect of the head and trunk; ☞ Verg., Aen., 9, 490; quae nunc artus avulsaque membra, Et funus lacerum tellus habet?).
A part of a whole, (a) of a sentence, articulus, incisio, incisum (a shorter member, κόμμα): membrum (a longer one, κῶλον [Vid: CLAUSE]: (b) one of a society of persons; to be rendered in Latin by various terms; membrum can be used only when the whole is (figuratively) expressed by corpus, and pars only in expressions such as that in Tac., Germ., 13, 2, ante hoc pars domus videntur, mox reipublicae (therefore of several): a member of a council, vir or homo senatorius; senator: a member of a community, civis: a member of a family, gentilis (belonging to a gens); homo de alicujus stirpe: the members of a family, domus: a member of a party or faction, vir factionis: a member of a society, socius (especially of a society for business): sodalis (especially of a society for feasting): homo ejusdem corporis (a member of the same corporation, etc.; Vid: Liv., 4, 57: so also, nostri or sui corporis homines, Vid: Liv., 6, 34; or simply nostri, sui, Vid: Liv., 4, 57): to be a member of an academy, *academiae socium ascribi: to become a member of a league, alicui consilio contribui (of a people, etc).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for member?
- The usual Latin words for “member” are articulus, artus, membrum; also incīsiō, incidō, vir. 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.