English → Latin
“stool” in Latin
sellulasmall seat or stool; sedan chairsēdēculasmall seat or stoolsubselliuma low seat or bench; the bench (of a judge)scabellumfootstool; a kind of percussion instrument played by the foot, used in dramatic performances.alvusbelly, bowels, paunch; excrement; flux, diarrhoea; stomach, digestive organs; womb; matrix (of a fruit)necessitāsnecessity, need, unavoidableness, compulsion, exigency; fate, destiny, inevitability; necessities, necessary things or esoleōto be accustomed, used to, in the habit ofexināniōto empty (the contents of); to drain or pour out; to strip; to despoil
The English word stool itself goes back to Latin stolō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
stool
A low seat, sellula (Tac.): sedecula (Cic.): subsellium: scabellum (a foot-stool).
Natural evacuation of the bowels, alvus. To go to stool, alvum exonerare (Plin.): necessitati or naturae parere; secedere ad exonerandum corpus (Sen., Ep., 70, 17). To have a stool, alvum dejicere (Cic.), solvere, exinanire (Cels.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for stool?
- The usual Latin words for “stool” are sellula, sēdēcula, subsellium; also scabellum, alvus, necessitās. 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.