English → Latin
“splint, splinter” in Latin
fragmentuma piece (broken off), remnant, fragmentcanālisa pipe, spout, channel, conduit; a gutter, ditch; a groove, channel, canal, conduit, ductcanāliculusA small channel, pipe or gutter.; A splint for broken bones, gutter-splint.ferulagiant fennel (Ferula communis); a staff, stick, rod; a splintcircumpōnōto place, put or set aroundimpōnōto place, lay, set, or put on, in, into, over, or upon; to impose upon, put upon, lay upon, inflict upon, fix, put, enjo
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
splint, splinter
A fragment split off, fragmentum. A splinter of a broken bone, ossis fragmentum (Cels.): to take out splinters, fracta ossa extrahere (Plin.).
A thin piece of wood to keep a set bone in its place, canalis: canaliculus (Cels.); also, plur., ferulae [the stalks of that plant being used as splinters], to which Cels. adds, explaining their use, quae fissae circumpositaeque ossa in sua sede contineant (Cels., 8, 10, 1). To put on splinters, ferulas accommodare, or circumponere, or imponere (Cels., ib.); ferulas circumdare (ib.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for splint, splinter?
- The usual Latin words for “splint, splinter” are fragmentum, canālis, canāliculus; also ferula, circumpōnō, impōnō. 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.