English → Latin
“ring” in Latin
tinniōto ring, jingle, clink; to pay (with the clinking of coins); to cry, scream in a shrill voicesonōto sound, resound, make a sound or noise (and various sounds in-context); to sound, utter, speak, express, call; to cry iānuaany double-doored entrance (e.g. a domestic door or a gate to a temple or city); an entrance, entry, accessorbiscircle, ring; of things that return at a certain period of time, a rotation, round, circuit; an orb (sphere)circuluscircle (geometric figure); orbit (circular path); ring; hoopānulusA ring, especially a finger ring; A signet ringforumpublic place, marketplace, forumhālōto breathe; to emit, exhale, release (gas or fragrance); to be fragrantsōlusalone, sole, only, by oneself with no others around; solitary, uninhabitedānellusa little ring
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
ring v.
Transitively, tinnire: to ring at a door, pulsare fores or januam (in the sense of the ancients, who always knocked): *agitare tintinnabulum forium (in our sense). To ring the bell for anybody, *aeris tinnitu aliquem arcessere; digitis concrepare (to snap with the fingers, as the ancients did, in calling slaves).
Intransitively, tinnire (only PROP.): sonare (general term to strike the ear). The ears ring, aures tinniunt.
ring s.
A circle, orbis: circulus. A ring round the moon, halo (Sen.); round the moon or sun, corona lunae or solis (Sen., Q.N., 1, 2, 1).
A circular substance, annulus: a finger ring, annulus: a little ring, annellus: a seal ring, annulus signatorius, or, from the context, simply annulus: a marriage ring, annulus pronubus (Jurisconsulti; annulus in fidem conjugii datus): adorned with ring, annulatus: a ring chain, catena annulis conserta (after Verg., Aen., 3, 467): to exchange rings, annulos commutare, dare et accipere: to wear a ring on the finger, annulum in digito habere (Ter., Hec., 4, 1, 59); gestitare (Plaut.): to put on a ring, annulum digito induere, aptare, inserere. To take off a ring, detrahere alicui annulum (Terentianus): an ear-ring, inauris (Plaut.), or annulus de aure dependens; curtain rings, velares annuli.
An open place in a town, forum.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for ring?
- The usual Latin words for “ring” are tinniō, sonō, iānua; also orbis, circulus, ānulus. 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.