English → Latin
“mine” in Latin
metallummetal (atomic element or material made of such atoms); precious metals, especially gold or silver.; mine (place where mefodīnaA place from which a mineral is dug; mine, pit.cunīculusa rabbit; a rabbit burrow; a mine, underground tunnel or galleryferōto bear; to carry; to support, hold up; to suffer, tolerate, endure, bear
The English word mine itself goes back to Latin mina.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
mine
pronoun, meus: What is thine is mine, quod tuum est, meum est (Terentianus): the inheritance is mine, hereditas mea est, mihi obtigit: it is not mine to utter a falsehood (poetical), non est mentiri meum (Terentianus).
mine s.
PROP., An excavation for obtaining metals, metallum, or, plur., metalla, -orum, neuter; fodina (a pit). to make mines, metalla instituere: to work mines, metalla exercere: to work mines afresh, metalla intermissa recolere: to condemn anybody to the mines, in metallum damnare (Plin.); ad metalla condemnare (Suet.): the right of opening a mine on one’s estate, jus metallorum: iron mine metallum ferrarium or ferri: gold, silver mine, metallum aurarium, argentarium.
Figuratively, a rich repository, *fons uberrimus, e quo haurire possumus; or by thesaurus (a treasure), etc.
PROP., an excavation for military purposes, cuniculus (Caes.); specus suffossus (Curt.). To form a mine, cuniculum agere: to spring a mine, *vi pulveris pyrii cuniculum discutere; *ignem admovere pulveri nitrato in cuniculo defosso; *pulvere pyrio incenso moles superstructas discutere: to throw down the walls by mines, cuniculis muros subruere (Liv.).
mine v.
(in military language)(in military language), cuniculum agere (Liv.); aliquem locum suffodere (Plin.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for mine?
- The usual Latin words for “mine” are metallum, fodīna, cunīculus; also ferō. 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.