English → Latin
“parcel” in Latin
fasciculusa small bundle or package (especially of letters or rolls); a bunch of flowers, nosegay; a computer fileparsa part, portion, piece, share; pars ... pars ..., some ... others ...; a party, fraction, sidegrexa group of smaller animals: a flock (of birds, sheep, etc.), a pack (of dogs, wolves, etc.), a swarm (of insects), etc.;partiōto share, part, apportion; divide, distributedīvidōto divide, separate; to distribute, apportion; to distinguish as separatedistribuōto divide or distribute; to assigndispertiōto divide (up); to distribute; to assign
The English word parcel itself goes back to Latin pars, through particella.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
parcel s.
A small pack, fasciculus: a parcel of fellows, hominum turba, grex: a parcel of rogues, sceleratorum colluvies.
Lot, division, pars.
parcel v.
partiri; dividere; distribuere, dispertire (to p. out).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for parcel?
- The usual Latin words for “parcel” are fasciculus, pars, grex; also partiō, dīvidō, distribuō. 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.