What is the Latin word for pea?

The usual Latin words for “pea” are pisum, cicer. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“pea” in Latin

pisumpea, pease cicerchickpea; testicle

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

pea

pisum; cicer (chick-pea): of peas, pisinus: of the size of a pea, magnitudine pisi (after Plin., 37, 10, 54); ad pisi magnitudinem (after Veg., 3, 12, 3): as like as two peas, tam similis, quam lac lacti est (Plaut., Mil. Glor., 2, 2, 85: Vid: LIKE).

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What is the Latin word for pea?: The usual Latin words for “pea” are pisum, cicer. 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.