English → Latin
“roof” in Latin
tegōto cover; to clothe; to conceal, hide, protectcanthēriusa gelding; an ass, mule; a man impotent through ageculmenstalk; top, roof, summit, peak; height, acmetēgulaa large, flat and heavy roof tile used in an overlapping formation with the curved and smaller imbrex; a tile used to baintegōto cover; to protect
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
roof s.
PROP., tectum (general term, especially the outer part of a roof): cantherii (the inner part, the rafters): culmen (the highest line of a roof, the ridge; then also the whole roof; Vid: Liv., 27, 4, aedis culmen Jovis fulmine ictum): tegulae (a roof covered with tiles): tectum scandulare (a roof of shingle; Apul., Met., 3, p. 137, 2): suggrundium or suggrundatio (a pent-house, eaves): A building (temple, etc.) without roof, aedificia hypaethra: to have advanced as far as the roof, ad tectum pervenisse (of a house in course of building): to keep the roof, etc., of a house in good repair, domum sartam et tectam conservare; sarta tecta aedium tueri: to blow off the roof, deturbare tectum ac tegulas; de tecto tegulas deturbare (Plaut.); tecto nudare.
Figuratively = House; e.g., to live under the same roof with one, una adesse in unis aedibus (Terentianus, Eun., 3, 2, 76); habitare cum aliquo: to welcome anybody under one’s roof, tecto ac domo invitare aliquem (to invite): hospitio aliquem excipere (to receive): moenibus tectisque accipere aliquem, or tectis ac sedibus recipere aliquem (of the inhabitants of a town who give shelter to persons in flight, etc.).
roof v.
tegere, integere, contegere aliqua re; with wood, scandulis contegere; with thatch, stramento integere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for roof?
- The usual Latin words for “roof” are tegō, canthērius, culmen; also tēgula, integō. 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.