English → Latin
“plait” in Latin
sinusa bent surface; a curve, fold, hollow; a gulf, bay, bight; the chord of an arc; a sinerūgaa crease in the face, wrinkle; a crease, fold, plait, wrinkle, corrugation of any kind; a streettegōto cover; to clothe; to conceal, hide, protectnectōto connect, interweave, attach, unite; relate; to bind, tie, fasten; to bind by obligation, oblige, make liablefrangōto break, shatter; to break, shatter (a promise, a treaty, someone's ideas (dreams, projects), someone's spirit); to breplicōto fold, bend or flex; to roll upsinuōto bend, wind, curve; to hollow out, excavate
The English word plait itself goes back to Latin plectō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
plait s.
sinus: ruga (ruga, PROP. a plait, pucker, rumple, projecting when the garment has been folded; sinus, a crease).
plait v.
texere (as a weaver, to put together artificially): nectere (to entwine together; ☞ plectere occurs only in the participleplexus, in the sense of plaited; and that in the poets): to plait garlands of flowers, serta e floribus facere: to plait ivy in the hair, hedera religare crines (poetical): to plait the hair, comam in gradus formare or frangere; comere caput in gradus: (☞ not capillos colligere in nodum, which = to draw the hair together into a knot): to plait a garment, plicare; sinuare.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for plait?
- The usual Latin words for “plait” are sinus, rūga, tegō; also nectō, frangō, plicō. 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.