English → Latin
“tent” in Latin
tentōriumtenttabernāculumA tent.; A tabernacle.turundaA ball of paste for fattening geese; A kind of sacrificial cake; A tent or roll of lint for wounds, a swabpēnicillumA painter's brush; paintingHī̆rtiusa Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held bypraetōriumheadquarters; general's tent; council of war; governor's palacecōnstituōto place, put, locate, lay; to set up, establish, constitute, found; to build, erect, constructcollocōto place, put, set in order, assign, arrange; to put together, assemble; to settlepōnōto place; to put; to lay; to ordain; to appoint; to make (something); to set up; to pitch (camp)tendōto stretch, stretch out, distend, extend; to direct oneself or one's course; to aim, strive, go, travel, march, tend, be
The English word tent itself goes back to Latin tendō, through *tenta.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
tent
tentorium (of cloth or skins, a military, movable tent; Sen., Hirtius): tabernaculum (Cic.; the word which Caes. uses for a soldier’s tent; it denotes, PROP., a slight hut or habitation, made of boards, skins, etc., but more durable and serviceable than tentorium; we often find pelles, plur., for “tents”). The general’s tent, praetorium: to pitch a tent, tabernaculum statuere, constituere (Caes.); collocare, ponere (Cic.; also absolutely); tendere (Tac., Curt.): to strike tents, tabernacula detendere (Caes., Liv.): a tent bed, lectus in tentorio collocandus: lectus castrensis: a little tent, tentoriolum (Hirt.): a tent-nail, paxillus tentorii.
A roll of lint put into a sore, turunda (Cato); penicillum (Cato, Plin.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for tent?
- The usual Latin words for “tent” are tentōrium, tabernāculum, turunda; also pēnicillum, Hī̆rtius, praetōrium. 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.