English → Latin
“relic” in Latin
reliquusremaining; surviving; the rest, the remaindercorpusbody, person (person when used to mean "human body", e.g., "on one's person"); substance, material (physical, perceptiblmonumentumreminder, memorial; monument; tomb, burial placereliquiaeremains; relics; remnants; remainders; leftovers of a mealrestōto stand firm; to stay behind; to remain, survive; to withstand, resist, oppose
The English word relic itself goes back to Latin linquō, through reliquiae.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
relic
That which is left, or remains of anything, reliquum; plur., reliqua or reliquiae (also, by circumlocution, quod superest, or restat, or reliquum est; e.g., quod membrorum reliquum est).
Body deserted by the soul, corpus.
That which is kept in memory of another, perhaps monumentum. Vid :, also, REMAINDER, REMAIN.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for relic?
- The usual Latin words for “relic” are reliquus, corpus, monumentum; also reliquiae, restō. 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.