English → Latin
“pipe” in Latin
fistulapipe, tube, especially a water pipe; hollow reed or cane; shepherd's pipe, pipes of Panpīpōto pip, peepstruōto place one thing on top of another, to pile up, join together; to compose, construct, build; to ready, prepare, devisetībiathe large shin bone, tibia; leg; a pipe, flute (originally of bone)harundōa reed; a fishing rod; the shaft of an arrowcalamusa reed, cane; an object made from a reed, such as a reed pen, arrow, or fishing rod; a stalk, straw, bladecicūtaa plant, poison hemlock, probably either Conium maculatum or Cicuta virosa; the juice of the hemlock given to prisoners canōto sing, recite, play; to sound, play, blow (a trumpet), especially a military call; to foretell, predict, prophesy
The English word pipe itself goes back to Latin pīpiō, through pipire.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
pipe s.
Hollow body, tube, fistula: pipes of an organ, *fistularum compages, structura: tobacco pipe, *fumisugium; *tubulus.
A musical instrument, tibia (clarionet): fistula (syrinx, or Pan’s pipes): arundo (cane): calamus (reed): cicuta (hemlock; all poetical for pipe).
A kind of large wine-cask, *dolium majoris modi quod vocant Pipe.
pipe v.
tibia, fistula canere; fistulam inflare (to blow a pipe): more usually canere or cantare tibiis, plur.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for pipe?
- The usual Latin words for “pipe” are fistula, pīpō, struō; also tībia, harundō, calamus. 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.