English → Latin
“plate” in Latin
lāminaa thin piece or sheet of metal, wood, marble, etc.; a plate, leaf, layer; a red-hot plate used as torture devices for slbracteagold leaf (or other thin sheet of metal), foil; veneer; show, glittercatīllussmall bowl, dish, or plateaureusMade of gold, golden; gilded; Of the color of gold, gold-colored; shining or glittering like gold; of physical and mentaaurumgold (as mineral or metal); gold (colour); any object made of gold, such as a gold coin or a gold ringexprimōto squeeze out; to press (out); to express; to imitate or copyargentumsilver (metal, element); a silver thingbracteātusgilded, gilt (also in figurative use); having bracts; bracteate (as a taxonomic epithet)
The English word plate itself goes back to Latin plattus, through plata.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
plate s.
A flat, broad piece of metal, lamina; bractea (very thin): a copper-plate, *lamina aenea: copper-plate (i. e., the impression), *pictura linearis per laminas aeneas expressa (Ern.); *imago aere excusa (Wyttenbach); *imago aeneae laminae ope descripta, expressa (Kraft).
A platter, catillus or catillum.
Wrought gold or silver, vasa argentea, aurea; or simply argentum, aurum; supellex argentea, aurea: chased plate, argentum caelatum: in castris Pompeii videre licuit magnum argenti pondus (a great quanty of plate, Caes., B.C., 3, 96).
plate v.
*argento obducere; *inducere rei argentum, aurum or bracteas auri, argenti: plated, bracteatus (Sen.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for plate?
- The usual Latin words for “plate” are lāmina, bractea, catīllus; also aureus, aurum, exprimō. 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.