English → Latin
“shelf” in Latin
pluteusA form of protective shed or breastwork.; A moveable screen.; A bookcase, bookshelftabulatablet, sometimes a tablet covered with wax for writing; board or plank; map, painting, document or other item put onto syrtissandbank, sand bar, quicksandpulvīnusa cushion, pillow, bolster to sit or lie upon; a seat of honorforulībookcase or bookshelves; lower rows in the Circensian games
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
shelf
Board to lay things on, pluteus (when covered over, or when one shelf is above another in a set): tabula (as a single board). Book-shelves, (librorum) foruli, loculamenta; pluteus.
Sand-bank, syrtis; Latin pulvinus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for shelf?
- The usual Latin words for “shelf” are pluteus, tabula, syrtis; also pulvīnus, forulī. 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.