English → Latin
“spout” in Latin
sīphōa siphon or tube; a fire engineōsmouth; (in general) head or face; (in general) facial features, countenance, appearancecaveōto take precautions, beware, take care; to guard against, attend to a thing for a person, provide; to guard against, to canālisa pipe, spout, channel, conduit; a gutter, ditch; a groove, channel, canal, conduit, ductcatusclever, intelligent, sagacious, clear-thinking; cunning, crafty, sly; shrill, sharp, clear-soundingtȳphonA violent whirlwindprōsiliōto leap, jump, rush or spring forth or up; to burst or break forth, start out, start up; to hastenēmicōto appear suddenly; to spring out, spring forth, to break forthexsiliōto spring, bound, leap or start out, up or forth
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
spout s.
A tube from which water springs forth, sipho, -onis, masculine; os, oris, neuter (mouth of a vessel).
A cataract, Vid:
Under the caves (for collecting rain-water), canalis, qui excipit e tegulis aquam coelestem (Vitr., 3, 5, 15). ☞ Tegulae colliciales were the gutter-tiles, down which the rainwater flowed (Cato, R.R., 14, 4).
Water-spout, typhon.
spout v.
PROP., prosilire (poetical and post-Augustan prose): emicare (†); se ejaculare in altum (all three of the blood, Ov., Met., 6, 259): scaturire (to bubble up; post-Augustan, very rare): exsilire (of water, Lucr., 2, 200).
Figuratively, Vid: To DECLAIM.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for spout?
- The usual Latin words for “spout” are sīphō, ōs, caveō; also canālis, catus, tȳphon. 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.