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“way” in Latin
viaroad, street, path; highway; way, method, manner, modeitera route; a passagecursusthe act of running; race; Course, way, passage, journey, voyage, march; Course, progress, direction, development, succesorbitaa track or rut made in the ground by a wheel; an impression or mark resembling a rut; the path of a heavenly body, orbitmeātusa going, passing, motion, course; a way, path, passageobstōto stand before, stand in the way of, obstruct, block, oppose; to thwart, hinderimpediōto hinder, impede, prevent, obstruct, hamper, thwart; to embarrassmeōto go along, pass or traverseadeōto approach, go to; to attend (a performance); to undertake, undergoratiōreason, reasoning, explanation, ground, motive, rationality, rationale, purpose; calculation, account, accounting, recko
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
way
PROP., via (the proper word): iter (road): cursus (course): orbita: meatus (track) [Vid: also, PATH, ROAD.] To be or stand in one’s way, impedimento esse alicui (Terentianus); obstare, officere alicui; impedire, morari aliquem: to get out of one’s way, de via decedere alicui; decedere alicui (to make room for); congressum alicujus vitare, fugere (after Cic.; to shun): out of the way, avius (that lies out of the way): devius (that leads out of the way): invius (through which there is no way): out of the way = remote, remotus: disjunctus (lonely, solitary): reconditus: abditus (hidden or concealed): longinquus (lying far off): an out-of-the-way place, longinquus et reconditus locus: latebra (a hiding place): to be out of the way, longe or satis magno intervallo remotum esse: out of the way, apage te; move te hinc: a thing is on its way, res adventat, imminet, instat: a place where two, three, four ways meet, bivium, trivium, quadrivium: not to know the way, viam nescire, non nosse: imperitum esse viae, itineris: to be on the way, in via, in itinere esse: to go out of the way, de via, ex itinere, excedere (Caes.); a via recedere (Liv.); de via declinare, deflectere (Cic.); via degredi (Liv.): to show anybody the way, viam alicui monstrare (Cic.); semitam monstrare alicui (Plaut.); ducem esse alicui viae, itineris (after Caes.): which way shall I take? quam viam insistam? (Ter., Eun., 2, 3, 2): quam viam ingrediare, ineam? (Cic.): you are in the right way, rectam instas viam: rectam viam ingressus es (Plaut.): it is a roundabout way, via habet longiorem anfractum (Nep.): the way to India, via quae hinc est in Indiam. Right of way, iter (right of going any where, or passing through): actus (right of driving cattle through; both Cic., Caecin., 26, 75). To take out of the way, tollere: de medio tollere. To turn out of the way, a directo itinere avertere aliquem: deducere aliquem a (recta) via: depellere aliquem a via (by force). By the way (i. e., in passing), in transitu: transiens: praeteriens (of these expressions, the first and second are post-Augustan in this sense; but we find quasi praeteriens in Cic.): strictim (superficially, slightly; for which we find obiter in the time of Sen.); per occasionem: occasione data or oblata (taking this opportunity).
Figuratively. Course, via (e.g., virtutis, vitae).
Manners or means (of obtaining anything), via: iter: aditus; (of doing anything), ratio (subjective); modus (objective): if you go on in this way, si ad istud modum pergas: not to be able to find one’s way out of a thing, (figuratively) emergi ex aliqua re non posse.
Counsel, plan, method of proceeding, via: consilium: institutum.
Custom, mos: consuetudo.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for way?
- The usual Latin words for “way” are via, iter, cursus; also orbita, meātus, obstō. 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.