English → Latin
“seat” in Latin
sessiōa sitting; a seat, place to sit; an idle sitting, loiteringsedīleseat, bench, stool, chair (fixed in position unlike a sella)sēdēsseat, chair; place, residence, settlement, habitation, abodesellaseat, chair (one that is moveable unlike a sedīle); A kind of open or enclosed sedan chair; saddledomiciliumA habitation, dwelling, domicile, abode, home.habitātiōAn inhabiting, dwelling.; A habitation, residence, dwelling; lodging.; The rent (for a dwelling).dēversōriusinn, lodging housecubīlebed; marriage bed; couchlustrumbog, morass, place where boars and swine wallow; den or lair of wild beasts; wood, forest; (a place of) debaucherylatibulumhiding place, refuge; den (of animals)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
seat s.
Place in which one sits or may sit, sessio: sedile (place in which one may sit): sedes (place in which one sits). To take the highest, lowest seat, supremum, ultimum, capere locum.
That whereon one sits, sedes: sella. A raised seat, solium: seats in the circus, fori (plur.): seats of the senators, subsellia (plur.): to take one’s seat, sedem capere (Liv., 1, 18): seat of justice, tribunal.
Place of abode, sedes: domicilium: habitatio: deversorium (an inn): cubile: lustrum (lair of a wild animal): latibulum: receptaculum (a hiding-place; the first especially of animals): refugium: perfugium; (The words are found in this connection and order.) portus et perfugium: portus et refugium: receptus tutus (a place of refuge). Seats of the gods, sedes, spatia immortalium: to change one’s seat, sedem alio transferre: seat of government, sedes, domicilium, imperii, regni: seat of war, locus belli gerendi (Cic.); sedes belli (Liv.): to change the seat of war, bellum (sedem belli) in alias terras transferre (Liv., 21, 21).
Country-house, villa
seat v.
sede locare, collocare, ponere. To seat one’s self, sedem capere, considere (PROP.): considere: residere (Cic.): subsidere (Verg.): sedem ac domicilium collocare aliquo loco (Cic., figuratively = to settle): to seat one’s self at table (after the manner of the ancients), accumbere: decumbere: recumbere; (according to our custom), ad mensam considere
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for seat?
- The usual Latin words for “seat” are sessiō, sedīle, sēdēs; also sella, domicilium, habitātiō. 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.