English → Latin
“weather” in Latin
caelumheaven (where the stars and the Milky Way is); sky; climate, weathertempestāsportion, point, or space of time; time, season, period; weather (good or bad); storm, tempest, galeserēnusClear, fair, bright, serene, tranquil.; That clears the sky or brings fair weather.; Cheerful, glad, joyous, bright; clefīnisend; limit, border, bound boundary, frontier; boundaries, bounds, frontiers; by extension, territory, region, landssūdōto sweat, perspiresabulōcoarse sand, gravel
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
weather s.
The state of the atmosphere, caelum: caeli status, tempestas (weather, good or bad). Fine, clear weather, tempestas bona or serena; caelum sudum or serenum: when the weather is fine (i. e., on a clear day), sereno; sudo: changeable weather, caelum varium; varietas caeli: settled weather, tempestas certa: cloudy weather, tempestas turbida: dry weather, siccitas: a continuance of dry weather, siccitates (Vid: Herzog, Caes., B.G., 5, 24): rough weather, caeli asperitas: foul weather, spurcissima tempestas: to be guided by the weather (i. e., see how the weather will turn out for doing, etc., anything), tempestatis rationem habere; tempestatem spectare: I am setting sail, favored by the finest weather, nactus idoneam ad navigandum tempestatem solvo.
Stormy weather, storm, tempestas (general term): tonitrua (nominative plur.), fulgura cum tonitru (nominative plur.; thunder, lightning with thunder): procella (blast of wind): tempestas oritur or cooritur (of a storm): fulmen tetigit locum (of lightning). The weather side, *pars opposita tempestatibus.
weather v.
Pass with difficulty, PROP., (classe) circumvehi aliquem locum (after Liv., 36, 22, 4; ☞ by no means circumnavigare = to slip about): (figuratively) eluctari aliquid or per aliquid (the proper word, through any hardship, trouble, snow, etc.): penetrare per aliquid (to press through): eniti per aliquid (to get through by great exertions; e.g., through the waves by force of rowing, per adversos fluctus ingenti labore remigum) :aegre moliri aliquid (to wade through with difficulty; e.g., through the sand, sabulum): emergere aliqua re and ex aliqua re (IMPROP., to extricate one’s self, work one’s self round again; e.g., ex mendicitate, incommoda valetudine). To WEATHER OUT, Vid: To OVERCOME, or To GET (over).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for weather?
- The usual Latin words for “weather” are caelum, tempestās, serēnus; also fīnis, sūdō, sabulō. 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.