English → Latin
“spoonful” in Latin
cochleara spoon; a spoonful (as a measure for liquids)lĭgŭlaa little tonguelinguathe tongue; a tongue, utterance, language, speech
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
spoonful
cochlear (= 1-24th of the cyathus; used as a measure of medicine): ligula (Plin.): lingua (Plin., semen lonchitidis duabus linguis ex aqua potum; 26, 11, 73). Two or three spoonfuls, duarum aut trium ligularum mensura (Plin.): a spoonful of salt, ligula salis: a lange spoonful, cochlear cumulatum: ligula cumulata. To take a spoonful of anything, aliquid mensura cochlearis bibere: to take a spoonful of it in water every day, cochlearis mensura in die sumere or sorbere aliquid in aqua: to give anybody a spoonful of anything, aliquid cochleari or cochlearis mensura dare: cochlearium (Plin., Scrib., Larg., is another form of cochlear.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for spoonful?
- The usual Latin words for “spoonful” are cochlear, lĭgŭla, lingua. 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.