English → Latin
“stock” in Latin
truncustree trunk; a piece cut off; blockhead, dunce, doltstirpsrootstock; the lowest part of the trunk of a plant, including the roots.; a plant, shrub, shoot, sprout; lineage, race, volōto wish, to please; to want; to mean, to intendcōpiasupply, abundance, copiousness, wealth, riches; plenty, fulness, multitude; opportunity, facilities (the means of doing apparōto prepare or make ready for something, put in order, provide, furnish, equip, organize; to provide or equip in additionsorsanything used to determine chances, lot; a casting or drawing of lots, a decision by lot, by fate, or by allotment or shcaputthe head (of humans and animals); head; top; summit; point; end; extremity (beginning or end); origin; source; spring; hnāvālisnavalexstruōto pile, heap or build up; to build up, raise, rear, erect, constructcompēsshackles (for the feet), fetters
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
stock s.
The trunk or body of a plant, truncus: arboris corpus: stirps (☞ not caudex or stipes). Stock still, immotus; immobilis: to be standing stock still, tamquam in incili aliquo adhaerere (proverbially, caelius, ap. Cic.); immotum stare.
A race, lineage, Vid:
Great quantity, vis: copia: magnus numerus.
Store, copia: apparatus. A large stock, vis magna, maxima: to lay in a large stock of corn, frumenti vim maximam comparare.
Capital, sors: caput.
(In ship building) (In ship building) Stocks, plur.; navalia, -ium, plur. To put a ship upon the stocks, navem aedificare or exstruere (in navalibus): to take a ship off the stocks, navem deducere: a ship leaves the stocks, navis exit navalibus.
Plural, Stocks, hold for the legs, compedes, plur.
If = funds, Vid.
stock v.
suppeditare alicui aliquid: instruere: exstruere (rare): ornare. (The words are found in this connection and order.) instruere et ornare aliquem aliqua re. Stocked, instructus: ornatus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for stock?
- The usual Latin words for “stock” are truncus, stirps, volō; also cōpia, apparō, sors. 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.