English → Latin
“treasure” in Latin
thēsaurustreasure, hoard; a dear friend, loved one; a vault for treasurecōpiasupply, abundance, copiousness, wealth, riches; plenty, fulness, multitude; opportunity, facilities (the means of doing gazatreasury; treasure, riches; wealthopsstrength, power, power to help, property; resources, wealth, riches; assistance, help, aid, supportdīvitiaeriches, wealth, affluence; a fortuneobruōto overwhelm or overthrow, overpower; to bury; to concealoccultōto conceal, hidecumulōto heap, pile up, amass, accumulate; to fill by heaping, overload; to increase, augmentcolligōto gather, draw, bring or collect (together), assemble, pick up; contract, draw up, compress, concentrate; harvest; to m
The English word treasure itself goes back to Latin thēsaurus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
treasure s.
thesaurus: copia (store of precious things; PROP. and figuratively): gaza (the same, but especially of royal treasure): opes, divitiae (wealth, riches). To amass treasure, opes, divitias colligere; thesaurum parare (Plaut.); opes cumulare (Curt.): to bury or hide a treasure, thesaurum defodere, obruere (Cic.), occultare (Liv.): to find a treasure, thesaurum fodere (Cic.), effodere (Petronius): public treasure, aerarium; thesaurus publicus (Cic.): that man is a treasure to me, mihi ille vir thesaurus est (Plin., Ep., 1, 22, 5): the treasures of talent and industry, copiae ingenii et acerrimi studii (Wolf). My treasure! deliciae meae! voluptas mea! amores mei!
treasure v.
(opes) cumulare: (opes, divitias) colligere (to amass riches): thesaurum occultare (to hide a treasure).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for treasure?
- The usual Latin words for “treasure” are thēsaurus, cōpia, gaza; also ops, dīvitiae, obruō. 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.