English → Latin
“ridge” in Latin
porcasow (female pig)līrathe earth thrown up between two furrows, a ridge; furrowdeorsumdownwards; below, beneathiuguma yoke (for oxen or cattle) or collar (for a horse); a yoke, pair, team of draft oxen; a pair of horses; a chariot; a jumōnsmountain, mount; hill; towering mass, heap, great quantityperpetuusperpetual, everlasting, continuous, uninterrupted, constant, incessant, unbroken; ablative of time: a duration of time,
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
ridge
Earth thrown up by the plough, porca (earth between narrow furrows): lira (earth between wide furrows).
The top of a mountain or hill, dorsum, jugum, montis (Caes., Liv.; ☞ not tergum collis or montis, which means the back or hinder part of a hill or mountain).
A line or chain of mountains, continuum montium jugum (Tac., Germ., 47); continuum montium dorsum (Liv., 41, 18); montes continui (Hor. Ep.), perpetui (Liv.): juga velut serie cohaerentia (Curt., 7, 3, 21); perpetuo jugo juncti colles (Mela, 1, 5, 3); jugum, quod montes perpetuo dorso inter se jungit (Liv., 41, 18); continuatio seriesque montium (after Cic.; Vid: Herzog, ad Caes., B.G., 7, 44).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for ridge?
- The usual Latin words for “ridge” are porca, līra, deorsum; also iugum, mōns, perpetuus. 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.