English → Latin
“net” in Latin
rētenet, snare, network; trap; The Web; the Internet.rēticuluma net; a fishnet; a hairnetfundōto pour out, shed; to melt, cast, found, make by smelting; to overthrow, overcome, rout, vanquish an enemy, rout, scatteiaculumA dart, a javelin; A casting net, the weapon of a retiariusverrĭcŭluma drag-netēverriculumbroom; sweepnet, dragnettegōto cover; to clothe; to conceal, hide, protectnectōto connect, interweave, attach, unite; relate; to bind, tie, fasten; to bind by obligation, oblige, make liable
The English word net itself goes back to Latin niteō, through nitidus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
net s.
rete or (of a less size) reticulum (general term). To make a net, rete or reticulum texere. Especially (a) for the hair, reticulum; (b) for catching fishes, rete (general term); funda, jaculum (a cast-net): verriculum, everriculum (a drag-net). To throw or cast a net, rete jacere: to draw out a net, rete educere (foras). (c) For catching birds and other animals, rete (general term); plaga (for larger animals; as boars, deer, such as were used in hunting; for this purpose several nets were necessary; hence usually the plur.: ☞ cassis is poetical). To set or place nets, retia or plagas pandere, or tendere: to surround with nets, plagis sepire aliquid; plagas or retia praetendere alicui rei (☞ plagis ambire aliquid is poetical): to lay a net for anyone (figuratively), plagas alicui texere or intendere: they lay nets for me, fiunt mihi insidiae: to drive into nets (or into a net), in plagas compellere (PROP.); in plagas conjicere (also figuratively): to fall into a net, in plagas cadere or incidere (PROP. and figuratively); in insidias incidere (figuratively): to entangle one’s self in a net, se impedire in plagas (PROP. and figuratively). (d) A net-like membrane in or on the animal body, septum, quod membrana quadam superiores partes praecordiorum ab inferioribus diducit; also, perhaps, membrana praecordiorum (the diaphragm, διάφραγμα; Vid: Cels., 1, praef., p. 21, Bip., and Plin., 11, 37, 77, who calls it praecordia, perhaps by mistake): peritonaeum (περιτόναιον, explained, Veg., 2, 15, 3, by membrana, quae intestina omnia continet): omentum (the omentum, ἐπίπλοον): *retina (of the eye; technical term).
net v.
To make net-work, texere; nectere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for net?
- The usual Latin words for “net” are rēte, rēticulum, fundō; also iaculum, verrĭcŭlum, ēverriculum. 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.