English → Latin
“neck” in Latin
collumThe neck or throat.; A symbol of servitude.; A symbol of life.cervīxneck, nape, throat; great burden, danger (from the figure taken from bearing the yoke); boldness, headstrong behaviorōsmouth; (in general) head or face; (in general) facial features, countenance, appearancegulagullet, throat, palate; gluttony, greedinessfaucēsthe upper part of a throat; pharynx; gullet; a narrow entrance; entry passage; defile; gorge; the jaws of the earth; gulcaputthe head (of humans and animals); head; top; summit; point; end; extremity (beginning or end); origin; source; spring; h
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
neck
Of men and animals, collum; cervix (☞ in prose, before the time of Augustus, almost always cervices (plur.): gula, faux or usually plur., fauces (the throat; the latter PROP., the upper, narrower part of the gula): caput (the head and neck): to break anybody’s neck, cervices alicujus frangere (☞ but gulam frangere, Sall., Cat., 55, 4, is unusual; and collum alicui torquere is = to take a firm hold of the neck and turn it a little [as a means of compulsion], Liv., 4, 53): to pay with one’s neck, capite luere: to risk one’s neck for the avarice of another, avaritiae alicujus poenam collo et cervicibus suis sustinere (Cic., Verr., 5, 42, in.): his neck is in danger, caput ejus agitur.
Of things without life, collum, cervix (of a bottle, etc.): os (the opening of a bottle, etc.): neck of land, lingua (Liv., Ov.); lingula (Caes.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for neck?
- The usual Latin words for “neck” are collum, cervīx, ōs; also gula, faucēs, caput. 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.