English → Latin
“waist” in Latin
corpusbody, person (person when used to mean "human body", e.g., "on one's person"); substance, material (physical, perceptiblnāvisship, boat, vessel; a fleet in the plural; nave (middle or body of a church)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
waist
*media pars (corporis, navis), truncus corporis (Cic., the trunk).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for waist?
- The usual Latin words for “waist” are corpus, nāvis. 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.