What is the Latin word for Side?

The usual Latin words for “Side” are Sīda, pars, ferō; also genus, undique, utrimque. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“Side” in Latin

Sīdaa town in Pamphylia parsa part, portion, piece, share; pars ... pars ..., some ... others ...; a party, fraction, side ferōto bear; to carry; to support, hold up; to suffer, tolerate, endure, bear genusbirth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type, class; species (general classification, as of living things), taxon (of ani undiquefrom or on all sides; from every direction; all over; all around, in every place, everywhere; utterly, completely utrimqueon or from both sides or ends laterālisOf or belonging to the side; lateral.lătĕrārĭuspertaining to bricks, brick-oblīquussidelong, slanting, awry, oblique; In a bad sense, envious, hostile trānsvertōto turn or direct across or athwart; to turn over; to turn away or avert

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

Side

Sida, -ae, and Side, -es (f.); of or belonging to Side, Sidensis, -e; the inhabitants of Side, Sidetae, -arum (m.)

side s.

PROP., In a wide signification, surface of a body (except the upper and under), part, pars (general term: ☞ not latus in this sense). On all sides, undique; in omnes partes; ab omnibus partibus: on both sides, utrimque; ultro citroque: toward every side, quoquo versus: on this side, ab, ex hac parte: on that side, ab ista parte: on this side and on that, hinc illincque; hinc atque illinc: to this side, to that, in hanc partem, huc; in illam partem, illuc: to different sides, in diversas, contrarias, partes: side of a hill, latus collis. If = part which anybody takes, or ought to take [Vid :, PART].

Part of the body, latus (of persons, animals, or things; opposed to frons, tergum). A pain in the side, dolor lateris, -um: to be always at anybody’s side, numquam a latere alicujus discedere: to walk by the side of anybody, a latere alicujus incedere: the sides of a ship, stamina (plur.); costae (Caes.). A side of bacon, pars lardi suilli: the lying on one’s side, cubitus (plur.) in latera (Plin.).

Figuratively, Party, pars: partes (plur.): to be on anybody’s side, cum aliquo esse (Cic.); stare ab or cum aliquo (opposed to facere adversus aliquem, Liv., Caes.); stare et sentire cum aliquo (Liv., Nep.); facere cum aliquo; studere rebus alicujus; esse partium alicujus; studiosum esse alicujus; sentire cum or pro aliquo (Cic.): to have anybody on one’s side, est, facit, sentit aliquis mecum; suum habere aliquem: to draw over to one’s side, aliquem in suas partes ducere, trahere (Tac.); trahere aliquem in suam sententiam (Liv., 5, 25); suum facere aliquem; aliquem ad se perducere (magnis pollicitationibus, Cic.): to go over to anybody’s side, in partes alicujus transire (Tac., Hist., 1, 70) or transgredi (ibid., 4, 39); ad causam alicujus se adjungere (Cic.); accedere ad aliquem (caelius, ap. Cic.): on the side of, a, ab.

Of consanguinity, latus: genus. On my side and yours, a meo tuoque latere (Plin., Ep., 8, 10, 3): the father’s, mother’s side, paternum, maternum genus: on the father’s side, a patre; si spectas genus patris; ratione habita paterni generis: on the mother’s side, materno genere (Sall., Jug., 11, 3).

side adj.

lateralis: laterarius (on the side lateral): obliquus (oblique): transversus (transverse). Side-looks, oculi obliqui, oculi limi. To cast side-looks at anything, oculis limis, or obliquis aspicere, or intueri aliquid.

Side-room, cubiculum continens, or junctum et continens, conclavi: cella minor (general term, a smaller room, Vitr.).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for Side?: The usual Latin words for “Side” are Sīda, pars, ferō; also genus, undique, utrimque. 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.