English → Latin
“plant” in Latin
plantaany vegetable production that serves to propagate the species; a sprout, shoot, twig, sprig, sucker, graft, scion, slip,serōto sow, plant; to beget, bring forth, produce; to found, establish; scatter, spread, disseminate; propagate; excite; caupōnōto place; to put; to lay; to ordain; to appoint; to make (something); to set up; to pitch (camp)dēpōnōto lay, set, put or place aside or away; deposit; to resign, get rid of, give up; to wager, stake, betfīgōto fasten, fix; to transfix, pierce; to erect, post, set upcollocōto place, put, set in order, assign, arrange; to put together, assemble; to settlecōnserōto fasten, connect, entwine, tie, join or bind into a whole; to unite or bring together; to engage in close combat, joinobserōto sow thickly, to cover with seedsīnfīgōto fasten, fix, implant
The English word plant itself goes back to Latin planta.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
plant s.
planta; by circumlocution quod ita ortum est e terra, ut stirpibus suis nitatur (Cic., Tusc., 5, 13, 37): to set a plant, plantam ponere: to take up a plant, eximere plantam; explantare aliquid: to remove a plant, plantam transferre.
plant v.
PROP., plantis serere; serere (where the context determines the sense): ponere; deponere (☞ plantare, for serere, is not classical): to plant a place, conserere; obserere; (with oaks) locum quercu arbustare.
Figuratively, figere; collocare: to plant a standard, signum proponere: infigere; vexillum proponere: to plant cannon, *tormenta disponere; upon the walls, in muris or per muros.
To settle (a colony), coloniam in aliquo loco constituere, collocare: to plant colonies, colonias condere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for plant?
- The usual Latin words for “plant” are planta, serō, pōnō; also dēpōnō, fīgō, collocō. 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.