“mouth” in Latin

Of men or animals, os (PROP.): rostrum (an instrument for gnawing; hence snout, beak; also, in contempt or facete for the human mouth): rictus oris, or simply rictus (an opening of the mouth, an open mouth): hiatus oris, or simply hiatus (a wide opening of the mouth, as in yawning): With open mouth, hians: to open the mouth (in order to speak), os aperire (poetical): to open the mouth wide, rictum diducere (in astonishment, laughter, or speaking; poetical): hiare (general term): oscitare (in yawning): to open anyone’s mouth (in order to put anything into it), alicui os diducere: do not open your mouth too wide (in laughing, speaking), sint modici rictus (Ov., A.A., 3, 283); observandum est ne immodicus hiatus rictum distendat (Quint., 1, 11, 9): to distort the mouth, labra distorquere (ib.): to make a mouth at anything (contemptuously), rictu oris ductuque labrorum contemni a se aliquid ostendere (Gell., 18, 4): to look at a horse’s mouth, equi dentes inspicere. Proverbially, don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, equi donati dentes non inspiciuntur (Hier.): to stop a person’s mouth, linguam alicui occludere; os alicui obturare (comic): to snatch a thing out of one’s mouth, aliquid alicui ab ore rapere; praeripere alicui aliquid; ex ore or ex faucibus eripere alicui aliquid (e.g., bolum, orationem; comic); eripere alicui aliquid (e.g., responsionem, comic): you take the word out of my mouth, istuc ibam (comic): to put anything into one’s mouth (figuratively; i. e., to introduce him as saying), aliquem aliquid loquentem facere: anything makes one’s mouth water, aliquid salivam mihi movet (also, figuratively in epistolary style, as Sen., Ep., 79, 6, aetna tibi salivam movet): to have anything in one’s mouth, aliquid in ore habere (PROP., of food; and figuratively, of speech): aliquid loqui (figuratively, of speech, ἐρεῖν τι; e.g., omnia magna loqui; nihil nisi classes loqui et exercitus): to be in ererybody’s mouth, in omnium ore or in omnium ore et sermone esse, omni populo in ore esse, per omnium ora ferri (of persons or things, in good or bad sense): omnium sermone vapulare (of persons, in a bad sense): tota urbe or tota regione percelebrari (of things, to be spread abroad): to have a thing from a person’s own mouth, coram ex ipso audivisse aliquid; aliquo auctore cognovisse aliquid: to speak through the mouth of anyone, alicujus ore loqui: not to shut one’s mouth (i. e., to speak boldly), libere loqui: to speak whatever comes into one’s mouth, garrire or loqui quidquid in buccam venerit (Vid: Cic., Att., 1, 12, extr.): out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh, omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat (Hor., A.P., 337): to keep the mouth shut (figuratively), tacere; linguam compescere: to proceed out of the mouth (of words, speech), ex ore alicujus exire, excidere, or mitti.

An opening, place of egress, etc., os, ostium (e.g., of a river, etc.); caput (one of several mouths of a river): the mouth of a gutter, drain, nares canalis: the mouth of a cannon, *os tormenti bellici: mouth of a hive, foramen quo exitus et introitus datur apibus (Col., 9, 7, 5).