English → Latin
“mortar” in Latin
mortāriummortar (used with a pestle); mortar (mixture of lime, sand, and water)pilaball; a game of ball; globe, sphereharēnātussandy (covered with sand)catusclever, intelligent, sagacious, clear-thinking; cunning, crafty, sly; shrill, sharp, clear-soundingbellicusof or pertaining to war; military; warlike, fierce in war
The English word mortar itself goes back to Latin mortārium.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
mortar
A vessel in which anything is pounded, mortarium; pila (less than mortarium): a small mortar, mortariolum (late): pila paullula (Cato, R.R., 14, 2): to pound anything in a mortar, in mortario or in pila tundere; in pila pinsere.
A kind of large gun, *mortarium (bellicum).
Prepared lime, mortarium, calx praeparata (Vitr.); arenatum (one third lime and two thirds sand): to cover with mortar, arenatum inducere alicui rei.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for mortar?
- The usual Latin words for “mortar” are mortārium, pila, harēnātus; also catus, bellicus. 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.