English → Latin
“stead” in Latin
locusplace (referring to a specific location); a passage of literature; opportunity; cause; occasion; groundsvicischange; alternation; interchange; time; instance; season
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
stead
locus: In stead of, loco or in loco (in the place of); vice or in vicem (in the room of), with a genitive; pro (for; with an ablative). To be or act in stead of, alicujus vice fungi (general term); alicujus officio fungi (to discharge the duties of anybody’s office); vicem alicujus rei praestare (general term; of things); ad alicujus rei vicem addi; in vicem alicujus rei sumi: to come in stead of, in locum alicujus or pro aliquo substitui (to be put in anybody’s place); in vicem alicujus, or in locum alicujus, or simply alicui, succedere (to be anybody’s successor); in alicujus locum subrogari or suffici (to be elected in anybody’s room); succedere in vicem imperii alicujus (to succeed in command); aliquid excipere (of things).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for stead?
- The usual Latin words for “stead” are locus, vicis. 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.