English → Latin
“spoon” in Latin
cochleara spoon; a spoonful (as a measure for liquids)lĭgŭlaa little tonguecochleasnail; spiral (form of a snailshell); screw of a presssuāvillumA kind of sweet cakelingulatongue, a narrow strip of land; tongue, a thong, flap, strap, or latchet of a shoe; lingula, a Roman unit of liquid meas
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
spoon
cochlear (terminated with a point at one end, broad and hollow at another: the pointed end was for drawing snails, cochleae, out of their shells, and eating them; the broad end for eating eggs, etc.): ligula (provincial lingula, a flatter spoon for eating preserved fruit with; savillum, for scooping up honey, etc.): Spoon-shaped, in formam lingulae redactus. The handle of a spoon, *manubriolum cochlearis or ligulae.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for spoon?
- The usual Latin words for “spoon” are cochlear, lĭgŭla, cochlea; also suāvillum, lingula. 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.