English → Latin
“tactics” in Latin
arsart, skill, craft, handicraft; trade, occupation, employment; cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagemmodusmeasure; bound, limit, end; manner (of doing or being arranged), way (of doing or being arranged), method
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
tactics
Military, res militaris. He made many improvements in military tactics, multa in re militari partim nova attulit, partim meliora fecit (Nep.).
Figuratively, ars: modus: ratio agendi.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for tactics?
- The usual Latin words for “tactics” are ars, modus. 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.