English → Latin
“stack” in Latin
acervusmass, heap, pile, stack, cluster; treasure; consonant cluster (pronounceable group of consonants that occur together)lignumfirewood; wood tissue; treestrāmentumstraw, litter; thatch; packsaddlefūmāriuma fumarium (smoke chamber used for maturing wine); a chimney (vent for smoke)fūmārioluma smokehole; a forge with a narrower chimney or ventcumulōto heap, pile up, amass, accumulate; to fill by heaping, overload; to increase, augmentacervōto form a heap, heap or pile up, amass; to accumulate, multiplycoacervōto heap or pile up; to amass, collect or gather together; to add, sum or totalcōnstruōto heap, bring, collect or gather together; to construct, build, fabricate, erect; to connect, constructfaenumhay; any dried plant; fenugreek
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
stack s.
acervus (e.g., lignorum, stramentorum, foeni): strues (e.g., lignorum) (☞ foenile, rather the barn or yard in which the hay was kept for use: meta foeni = a cock of hay: congeries, in the best writers, denotes a heap of things put together without order or regular form; therefore not = stack.) A stack of chimneys, *ordo (fumariorum, fumariolorum).
stack v.
cumulare: acervare (rare): coacervare: construere (e.g., foenum).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for stack?
- The usual Latin words for “stack” are acervus, lignum, strāmentum; also fūmārium, fūmāriolum, cumulō. 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.