English → Latin
“vapor” in Latin
vaporsteam, exhalation, vapour; smoke; warm exhalation, warmth, heat; ardour of love, warmthhālitusbreath, exhalation; bad breath; steam, vapour, fumenebulafog; cloud; vaporexhālātiōexhalation (act, and vapour expelled by breathing out); evaporationexspīrātiōbreathing out, exhalation; expirationaspīrātiōThe act of blowing or breathing to or upon; exhalation.; The pronunciation of a word with aspiration; breathing, aspiratrespīrātiōexhaling; breathing, respirationvăpōrātĭoa steaming
The English word vapor itself goes back to Latin vapor.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
vapor s.
Exhalation, vapor: halitus: nebula (from the earth or from water; the latter a cloud-like vapor): exhalatio: exspiratio: aspiratio (exhalation from the earth): respiratio (from water). Vapors rise from the water, aquae vaporant; from the earth, humores in aera surgunt: a vapor bath, assa sudatio, vaporatio (the bathing with steam or vapor); assum Laconicum (the chamber: ☞ Not vaporarium, which is = flue or furnace).
Melancholy, Vid.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for vapor?
- The usual Latin words for “vapor” are vapor, hālitus, nebula; also exhālātiō, exspīrātiō, aspīrātiō. 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.