English → Latin
“pie” in Latin
picōto smear with pitch, to tar; to season (wine) with a pitchy flavourscriblītaa kind of tartmīllethousand; 1000Persiusa Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held byPetrōniusof or pertaining to the gens Petronia
The English word pie itself goes back to Latin pīca.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
pie
A kind of bird, magpie, pica.
A pasty, artocreas (Persius, 6, 50; meat-pie): scriblita, -ae, m. (a tart, Petronius).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for pie?
- The usual Latin words for “pie” are picō, scriblīta, mīlle; also Persius, Petrōnius. 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.