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“range” in Latin
ōrdōa methodical series, arrangement, or order; regular line, row, or series; a class, station, condition, rank; a group or seriēsa row; a succession; a seriesconiciōto throw or bring together, unite, connect; to throw, drive, force, hurl something; to dispatch, assign, make gomēme, myself; accusative singular of ego; by me, with me, from me; ablative singular of egopervagorto wander through; to rove about; to pervade; to extendperagrōto wander or travel through or over; pass through, traverse; spread through; to search through, penetrate, scourascendōto climb up, to go up, to move upwards; to rise, spring updēscendōto climb down, to go or come down, to descend; to march down; to pierce, to penetrate
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
range s.
Row, ordo (a row of things that stand in a relative proportion to one another with regard to space or room): series (the successive or consecutive following of several objects, a series). [Vid :, also, ROW.]
Class, Vid:
Course, Vid:
A step of a ladder, gradus scalarum (☞ Cels., 8, 15, med., where we find the unusual gradus scalae; also, scala simply [☞ Mart., 7, 19, 20]).
A kitchen grate [Vid :, GRATE].
A sieve, Vid:
A chain (of mountains) [Vid :, CHAIN].
Reach (of cannon-shot), *tormenti jactus or conjectus: to be within range of cannon-shot, ictibus tormentorum interiorem esse (after Liv., 24, 74): to be beyond range of cannon-shot, extra tormenti jactum or conjectum esse (after Curt., 3, 10).
range v.
To place in proper order [Vid: To ARRANGE].
Intransitively, To rove over, pervagari: peragrare: tota urbe discurrere (through the whole town): the mercury ranges (in the barometer), *mercurius (in tubo Torricelliano) ascendit or descendit.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for range?
- The usual Latin words for “range” are ōrdō, seriēs, coniciō; also mē, pervagor, peragrō. 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.