English → Latin
“pig” in Latin
sūspig, swine, hog, boar, or sowporcusa piglet, a young pig; a pig, hog; short for porcus marīnus (“sea-hog, mereswine, porpoise”)porculuspiglet; a little pig.porcelluspigletpecusA group of large domestic animals: a herd of cattle, horses, or donkeys; such animals in a collective sense: cattle and suīllusrelational adjective of sūs. porcine, suillineporcīnuspig, swine, hog; porcineparōto arrange, order, contrive, design; to provide, furnish, prepare; to resolve, purpose, decide
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
pig s.
sus: porcus: a young pig, porculus; porcellus: a sucking pig, porcellus lactens (Col.): pigs, pecus or genus suillum: pig meat, (caro) suilla or porcina: to buy a pig in a poke, aleam emere (Vid: Freund, Vid: v. ALEA).
pig v.
porcellos edere or parere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for pig?
- The usual Latin words for “pig” are sūs, porcus, porculus; also porcellus, pecus, suīllus. 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.