What is the Latin word for table-cloth?

The usual Latin words for “table-cloth” are pōnō, gausapa. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“table-cloth” in Latin

pōnōto place; to put; to lay; to ordain; to appoint; to make (something); to set up; to pitch (camp)gausapaA shaggy, woolen cloth; a garment of frieze

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

table-cloth

linteum in mensa ponendum or positum (linen; Vid: Apul., Apol., 308, 19): gausape or gausapes (woollen, wove on one side), or *mensae linteum, only. To lay the table-cloth, mensam linteo sternere (after triclinium sternere, Martial); *linteum superinjicere mensae.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for table-cloth?: The usual Latin words for “table-cloth” are pōnō, gausapa. 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.