English → Latin
“place” in Latin
locusplace (referring to a specific location); a passage of literature; opportunity; cause; occasion; groundssēdēsseat, chair; place, residence, settlement, habitation, abodemūnusa service, office, employment; a burden, duty, obligation; a service, favorprōvinciaoffice, official duty, command, formal responsibility given to a magistrate; a task, responsibility, burden; the office domiciliumA habitation, dwelling, domicile, abode, home.vicischange; alternation; interchange; time; instance; seasoncōnstituōto place, put, locate, lay; to set up, establish, constitute, found; to build, erect, constructpōnōto place; to put; to lay; to ordain; to appoint; to make (something); to set up; to pitch (camp)locōto put, place, set; to arrange, establish; to lease, hire out, lendcollocōto place, put, set in order, assign, arrange; to put together, assemble; to settle
The English word place itself goes back to Latin platēa.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
place s.
Situation, locus, (plur.) loca; sedes (PROP.); locus (figuratively): in place of, loco or in locum, with a genitive (in the room of); vice or in vicem, with a genitive (denoting exchange or substitution); pro, with an ablative (i. e., for, instead of, denoting relation); e.g., salis vice nitro uti; in vicem legionum equites mittere; in locum ejus invitatus sum; nummos adulterinos pro bonis solvere: if I were in your place, si tuo loco essem; si ego essem qui tu es: put yourself in my place, fac, quaeso, qui ego sum, esse te; eum te esse, finge qui sum ego. To be in the place of anybody, vice alicujus fungi; alicujus vices obire; alicujus vicarium esse (☞ not repraesentare aliquem).
Office, locus; munus; provincia: first plur., principatus.
Residence, sedes; domicilium.
Passage in a writing, locus; (plur.) loci.
place v.
rem in loco statuere, constituere, ponere; locare, collocare: to place in order, componere; ordine dispensare et disponere; digerere; apte collocare; distincte et ordinate disponere: to place a press or cupboard in the wall, armarium parietibus inserere: to place anything (e.g., an image) on a shield, aliquid includere in clipeo: to place (doors, windows, etc.) PROP. in a house, apte disponere: to place money, pecuniam collocare: to place out well, bene locare: to place = sell his goods, merces omnes vendere. Vid: also, PUT.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for place?
- The usual Latin words for “place” are locus, sēdēs, mūnus; also prōvincia, domicilium, vicis. 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.