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“spot” in Latin
maculaa spot, speck, small mark or stain; a blemish, temporary or permanent (for example, a bruise, freckle, mole, birthmark, lābēsfall, collapse; subsidence; fault, defectnōtusfamiliar, customary, in common use; widely known, famous, well-known; of great renown, illustrious, celebrated, notoriounaevusbirthmark; mole (on the body)aerūgōrust of copper, verdigris; canker of the mind, ill will, envy, avariceruborredness; blush; modestylīvora bruise; a bluish color; envy, jealousysūgillātĭoa blackand-blue markglaucōmadimming of the vitreous body in the eye, glaucoma; chicanery, con game, swacksarcĭona fault
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
spot s.
A stain, mark, macula (which marks a thing otherwise of a single color; also for labes): labes (which renders unclean; in prose mostly figuratively = stain, blot, blemish): nota (a mark used for distinction): naevus (natural spot on the skin): aerugo (a spot of rust): atramenti litura (a blot [so Georges; but Freund gives no instance of litura in this sense, its meaning being that of smearing over; e.g., in erasure from a waxen tablet: thus linere atramento is to cover with a wash of black paint: better, nota or labes atramenti, after tractata notam labemque remittunt Atramenta, Hor.]): rubor (a red spot): livor, sugillatio (a blue spot on the body; the former natural, the latter in consequence of a blow): glaucoma, -atis, neuter (a blue or grey spot on the eye): sarcion (a vein in a precious stone): vitium (figuratively, a fault, stain). To make a spot in anything, maculam facere in aliqua re: to take away or remove a spot, maculam tollere, delere, auferre; from anything, e or de re (general term); maculam (atramenti labem) abluere; from anything, e re; with anything, aliqua re (to wash out); maculam extrahere (to draw out): to remove a spot from the body, maculae corporis mederi: from the face, maculam e facie tollere: to be without a spot, omni vitio carere. [Vid: also, BLEMISH, STAIN]
Place, locus. In the right spot, suo loco: not to move or stir from the spot, nusquam se vestigio movere: not to remain in one spot, nusquam insistere: to be always looking to one spot, eadem contueri: not to stir or advance from the spot, nihil promovere.
spot v.
maculare: commaculare: maculis aspergere (especially to make spots on anything white): inquinare (to disfigure by spots): contaminare (to pollute, figuratively): oblinere (to besmear): labem or labeculam aspergere alicui rei (to affix a stain of infamy to). Vid: To STAIN, POLLUTE.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for spot?
- The usual Latin words for “spot” are macula, lābēs, nōtus; also naevus, aerūgō, rubor. 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.