English → Latin
“wall” in Latin
mūruswall, city wall(s), (usually of a city, as opposed to pariēs); mounds made without ditchesmoeniacity walls, town walls, defensive walls, fortifications, ramparts, bulwarks; in general: walls, enclosuremāceriawall or enclosure made of brick or clay; wall (especially one enclosing a garden)pariōto bear, to give birth to; to spawn, produce, generate, beget; to procure, acquireprōpugnāculumbulwark, rampart, fortress; defenceparietinaOld or ruined wallsaedificōto build, erect, establish; (figuratively) to "build" a life, to live in a morally good or prudent manner; to create, frēdūcōto lead, draw or take out, forth or away; to raise up; erectcircumdōto surround, enclose, encircle
The English word wall itself goes back to Latin vallum.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
wall s.
murus (any wall, or single part of a wall; in the plur., like our “walls,” it denotes a wall of great circumference; and figuratively, both sing. and plur., it is = a defence, bulwark): moenia (walls round a town; hence, also, other buildings which furnish protection): maceria (the proper word of fences made of weaker materials, as mud, brush-wood, etc., about gardens, country-houses, vineyards, woods, etc): paries (a partition wall in a house or other large building): propugnacula, -orum, nominative plur. (bulwarks); propugnacula murique (also, figuratively = protection): old, ruinous walls, parietinae: a stone wall, murus lapideus: a brick wall, murus latericius: to build a wall, murum exstruere, aedificare; parietem ducere: to lay the foundation of a wall, murum instruere (Vid: commentators on Nep., Them., 6, 4): to surround a town with walls, urbem moenibus cingere; urbem moenibus circumdare, or circumdare urbi moenia: a breach in a wall, munimentorum ruinae; jacentis muri ruinae: to make a breach in a wall, tormentis et arietum pulsu muros quatere; muros arietibus quatere or ferire; tormentis machinisque perfringere ac subruere muros; muri partem ariete incusso subruere: there was already a considerable breach in the walls, muri pars, ariete incusso subruta, multis jam locis prociderat: to enter a town through a breach in the wall, per apertum ruina iter in urbem invadere; per ruinas jacentis muri in urbem transcendere: to repair a breach in the walls (in haste), muros quassos raptim obstructis saxis reficere.
wall v.
murum exstruere, aedificare: parietem ducere (to build a wall): murum excitare, educere (to build to a great height, as a tower, etc.). To wall six feet high, murum in altitudinem sex pedum perducere: to wall round, muro cingere, circumdare: to wall up, saxis condudere. ☞ Saxis obstruere is = block up, barricade.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for wall?
- The usual Latin words for “wall” are mūrus, moenia, māceria; also pariō, prōpugnāculum, parietina. 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.