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“roast meat” in Latin

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

roast meat
assum: caro assa: assa, -orum, neuter (of several joints). Roast beef, assum bubulum: roast veal, assum vitulinum.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for roast meat?
The usual Latin words for “roast meat” are adsum, assus. 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.