English → Latin
“stone” in Latin
lapisstone; milestone; boundary stonelapillusA small stone, pebble.; Stone in the bladder, gravel, calculus.; A precious stone, gem, jewel; marble.saxumstone, rock (a large, rough fragment of rock); wall of stonegemmaA bud or eye of a plant.; A gem, gemstone, jewel, precious stone.; A thing made of precious stones.silexpebble, stone, flint; rock, crag; lavaōsmouth; (in general) head or face; (in general) facial features, countenance, appearancegrānumgrain, seed, small kernelpūmexa pumice stone; pumice; any porous rockmagnēsmagnet, lodestonecalculusdiminutive of calx; pebble, stone; reckoning, calculating, calculation
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
stone s.
lapis (general term): lapillus (a small stone): saxum (a large stone): gemma (a precious stone): silex (flint) (cotes is a whet-stone): os, ossis: granum (in fruit): saxum sectile, lapis sectilis (free-stone): pumex (pumice-stone): magnes (lapis) (a load-stone): Full of stones, lapidosus: granosus (of stones in fruit). To clear (a field) of stones, elapidare agrum. A heap of stones, acervus lapidum; lapides in unum locum congesti (☞ not congestus lapidum): stone’s throw, lapidum conjectus. Set with (precious) stones, gemmatus: gemmis distinctus: to turn to stone, lapidescere: in lapidem (in saxum) verti.
In the human body, calculus (as a disease): to cut for the stone, alicui calculos excidere: to cure of the stone, alicui calculos pellere, discutere, or curare: alicui lapillum ejicere. Proverbially, Not to leave one stone upon another, domum, or urbem, diruere atque evertere, solo aequare or adaequare. To kill two birds with one stone, de eadem fidelia duos parietes dealbare (= to dispatch two things at once; Curio ap. Cic., ad Fam., 7, 29, extr.): una mercede duas res assequi, or uno saltu duos apros capere (= to obtain a double advantage with one effort; Cic., Rosc. Am., 29, 80; Plaut., Cas., 2, 8, 40). Not to leave a stone unturned, nil intentatum linquere (Hor., A.P., 235); nihil inexpertum omittere (Curt., 3, 6, 14); omnia experiri (Terentianus); nihil reliqui facere (Tac.); nihil sibi reliqui facere (Caes..).
A certain weight, *octo (or quatuordecim, as the case may be) librae pondo.
stone v.
To take away stones, (agrum) elapidare.
To clean with a stone, cote despumare (pavimentum)
To kill with stones, lapides in aliquem conjicere: aliquem lapidibus co-operire (☞ not aliquem lapidibus obruere, which was a false reading in Cic., Off., 3, 11, 48): ☞ aliquem lapidare is not found in the best prose, which has only the impersonal lapidat, usually with imbri or de caelo, “it rains stones. “
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for stone?
- The usual Latin words for “stone” are lapis, lapillus, saxum; also gemma, silex, ōs. 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.