English → Latin
“saw” in Latin
serraa saw (tool); a kind of sawfish; a serrated battle orderserrulasmall sawlupuswolf (Canis lupus); hops (Humulus lupulus)strīdora harsh, shrill, hissing, grating, or creaking soundserrōto saw up, or to pieces; to close, shut
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
saw s.
serra (general term): serrula (a little saw): lupus (a hand-saw). The grating noise of a saw, stridor: a grating saw, serra stridens (Lucr.): toothed, jagged like a saw, serratus: the blade of a saw, lamina serrae: the tooth of a saw, dens serrae: to cut anything through with a saw, serra dissecare aliquid.
saw v.
Intransitively, serram ducere.
Transitively, serra secare or dissecare aliquid. To saw off, serra praecidere (Col.), serrula desecare; lupo desecare; lupo resecare (with a hand-saw): to saw a tree into planks or boards, arborem in laminas dissecare: to saw round, serrula circumsecare: to saw marble, marmor secare (Plin.). To saw asunder, aliquem medium serra dissecare (as a mode of execution, Suet., Cat., 27).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for saw?
- The usual Latin words for “saw” are serra, serrula, lupus; also strīdor, serrō. 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.