English → Latin
“sheet” in Latin
lōdīxa small shaggy blanket or coverlet, sometimes also used as a carpetlāminaa thin piece or sheet of metal, wood, marble, etc.; a plate, leaf, layer; a red-hot plate used as torture devices for slbracteagold leaf (or other thin sheet of metal), foil; veneer; show, glitterbracteolagold leafplagulasheet of cloth or paper; bed-curtain; a slight stroke or blowlāmellaA small, thin plate of metal.; lamellaaēneuscopper, bronze; made of copper, made of bronze; brazenferreusiron, made of iron; like or pertaining to iron; hard, cruel
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
sheet
(Of a bed, etc.)(Of a bed, etc.), perhaps lodix: (toral is = counterpane; linteum, a linen cloth; general term).
A thin plate, lamina: bractea; bracteola (diminutively): sheet copper, sheet iron, lamina, lamella, aenea, ferrea.
A piece of paper, plagula.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for sheet?
- The usual Latin words for “sheet” are lōdīx, lāmina, bractea; also bracteola, plagula, lāmella. 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.