English → Latin
“mount” in Latin
scandōto climb, ascend, mount; to clamber; to scan (poetry by its feet)cōnscendōto climb up, ascend or scale; to mount (a horse); to board (a ship)mūruswall, city wall(s), (usually of a city, as opposed to pariēs); mounds made without ditchesequushorse; steed, chargernāvisship, boat, vessel; a fleet in the plural; nave (middle or body of a church)
The English word mount itself goes back to Latin mōns, through *montāre.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
mount v.
INTRANS., scandere (to ascend a steep place): sublime ferri; sublimem abire (in the air; the latter only of living creatures): pennis se levare; pennis sublime efferri (of birds). TRANS., scandere aliquid, or in aliquid (e.g., muros; in aggerem): conscendere (with an accusative; e.g., equum, navem): ascendere aliquid, or in aliquid (e.g., murum, navem, or in navem): escendere in aliquid (e.g., in rostra, in concionem, in malum): inscendere in aliquid (e.g., in arborem, in currum) [SYN. in CLIMB]: to mount a horse, conscendere equum; ascendere in equum: to cause the cavalry to mount, equiti admovere equos: not to suffer one to mount (of a horse), non patientem esse sessoris (Suet., Caes., 61); sessorem repudiare (Sen., Const., 12, 3); insurgere in omnes, et conscendere conatus ferocia exterrere (Curt., 1, 4, 13): to mount the rostra, escendere in rostra or in concionem; ascendere in rostra: to mount the throne, *in regiam sedem escendere (PROP.); regnum adipisci; regnum occupare (figuratively, the latter especially contrary to right).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for mount?
- The usual Latin words for “mount” are scandō, cōnscendō, mūrus; also equus, nāvis. 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.