English → Latin
“road” in Latin
viaroad, street, path; highway; way, method, manner, modeitera route; a passagesālsalt; wit; brine, salt water, the sealapisstone; milestone; boundary stonesternōto spread, stretch out, spread out; to calm, still, moderate; to cover, spread with, scatter with, bestrew with, besprincōnsternōto alarm, shock, startle, terrify, throw into confusionerrōto wander, rove, stray, roam; to get lost, go astray; to err, wander from the truth, to mistake
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
road
A way, PROP., via (the road itself): iter (journey, route): a made or paved road, via (lapidibus) strata (Liv., 8, 15, 9; in later writers also simply strata. Vid: Eutropius 9, 9, 15). To pave a road, viam lapidibus sternere, consternere.
Figuratively, A way, means, via: a right road, via; via certa: a wrong road, error (an error): vitium (a fault): to fall into the wrong road, in errorem induci, rapi (to be led aside, through want of consideration): a virtute discedere, honestatem deserere (through one’s own evil inclination): to be on the wrong road, errare (without knowing it): vitam deviam sequi (wilfully). To bring anybody into the wrong road, aliquem in errorem inducere (to lead into error): aliquem transversum agere (to lead from the path of virtue).
A station for ships, statio navium (any anchorage): salum (a part of the open sea, opposite the coast): to lie at anchor in the roads, stare in salo, or in salo ante ostium portus, with or without in ancoris (of ships): in salo esse (of sailors).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for road?
- The usual Latin words for “road” are via, iter, sāl; also lapis, sternō, cōnsternō. 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.