English → Latin
“station” in Latin
statiōoutpost, picket; station; watchlocusplace (referring to a specific location); a passage of literature; opportunity; cause; occasion; groundssēdēsseat, chair; place, residence, settlement, habitation, abodedignitāsworth, worthiness, merit, desert; fitness, suitability; rank, status, standing, esteem, dignitysorsanything used to determine chances, lot; a casting or drawing of lots, a decision by lot, by fate, or by allotment or shmūnusa service, office, employment; a burden, duty, obligation; a service, favorparsa part, portion, piece, share; pars ... pars ..., some ... others ...; a party, fraction, sidemānsiōAn act or instance of staying, remaining; stay, continuance.; A dwelling, abode, habitation, home.; A stopping place or locōto put, place, set; to arrange, establish; to lease, hire out, lendcollocōto place, put, set in order, assign, arrange; to put together, assemble; to settle
The English word station itself goes back to Latin stō, through statiōnem.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
station s.
Place, position, statio: locus: sedes (of a thing fixed or quite at rest).
Rank, locus: dignitas: sors. [SYN. in STANDING.]
Office, munus: partes, plur.
A place of lodging or rest on a journey, mansio.
station v.
locare: collocare. To station in several places, disponere: to station troops, milites constituere (in colle, Liv., ; in fronte, Sall.): to station guards round the house, domum sepire custodibus (Nep., Dion 9, 1): to station guards along the bank of a river, custodias ad ripam disponere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for station?
- The usual Latin words for “station” are statiō, locus, sēdēs; also dignitās, sors, mūnus. 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.