English → Latin
“saddle” in Latin
sellaseat, chair (one that is moveable unlike a sedīle); A kind of open or enclosed sedan chair; saddleephippiumA saddlecloth, horsecloth, or caparison; housing.; A condom.strāguluscoveringsternōto spread, stretch out, spread out; to calm, still, moderate; to cover, spread with, scatter with, bestrew with, besprinclītellaepacksaddlePetrōniusof or pertaining to the gens Petroniaīnsternōto cover (over); to strew (on)impōnōto place, lay, set, or put on, in, into, over, or upon; to impose upon, put upon, lay upon, inflict upon, fix, put, enjo
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
saddle s.
sella (in later writers): ephippium, Greek; stragulum, Latin (a housing, caparison, which the ancients used instead of our saddle): stratum (e.g., qui asinum non potest stratum caedit, proverbially, Petronius, also Liv., 7, 14, 7): clitellae (pack-saddle). To take off a saddle, *equo detrahere sellam or stragulum. Some horses are more fit for the saddle, others for draught, quidam equi melius equitem patiuntur, quidam jugum. To throw out of the saddle, aliquem de equo dejicere, deturbare (PROP.); aliquem dejicere, depellere de gradu; aliquem loco movere (figuratively). Firm in the saddle, qui haeret equo; qui non facile dejicitur de equo (PROP.), paratus; firmus; tutus; qui de gradu dejici non potest (figuratively).
saddle v.
(equum) sternere, or insternere (Liv.); imponere equo sellam: saddled, stratus: equus instratus frenatusque (Liv., 21, 17; saddled and bridled).
Figuratively, To saddle with, imponere, injungere alicui aliquid.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for saddle?
- The usual Latin words for “saddle” are sella, ephippium, strāgulus; also sternō, clītellae, Petrōnius. 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.