English → Latin
“smoke” in Latin
fūmussmoke, steam, fume; indication, signfūmōto smoke, steam, fume; to smoke (a cigarette, a pipe etc.)fūmōsussmoking, smoky, smokedcatusclever, intelligent, sagacious, clear-thinking; cunning, crafty, sly; shrill, sharp, clear-soundingdomushouse, home (the building where a person lives); any dwelling-place or abode (of people or animals); the place of one's culmenstalk; top, roof, summit, peak; height, acmevapōrōto steam, reek; to smoke, fumigaterefundōto pour back, pour out
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
smoke s.
fumus. To make a smoke, fumare: full of smoke, fumosus: to cure or dry by smoke, in fumo suspendere (Cato, R.R., 162, extr.); fumo siccare (Plin., 19, 5, 24): smoke rises, fumus evolvitur ex, etc.; also, fumat aliquid (e.g., domus, culmen; Vid: To SMOKE).
smoke v.
Transitively, To dry in the smoke, fumo siccare (Plin., 19, 5, 24): in fumo suspendere (Cato, R.R., 162).
To burn (tobacco), *herbae nicotianae fumum ducere.
To jeer, Vid:
Intransitively, fumare: vaporare. The house smokes, domus fumat; culmen fumat (i. e., smoke ascends from the chimney); *ventus in conclave fumum regerit or refundit (a room is filled with smoke).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for smoke?
- The usual Latin words for “smoke” are fūmus, fūmō, fūmōsus; also catus, domus, culmen. 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.