English → Latin
“weed” in Latin
sterilisbarren, sterile; unprofitable, futilemalusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, mruncōto weed, clear of weeds; to weed out, thin out, root up; to deprive of hairēruncōto weed outsarriōto hoe; to weed (crops)sarculumhoe
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
weed s.
A noxious or useless plant, herba inutilis, sterilis, mala.
Weeds = mourning worn by widows, *cultus lugubris viduarum; *vestis lugubris qua viduae vestitae sunt.
weed v.
runcare: eruncare: inutiles herbas evellere: steriles herbas eligere: malas herbas effodere, sarrire (with the hoe). To weed a garden, hortum steriles herbas eligens repurgo: a weeding hoe, sarculum.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for weed?
- The usual Latin words for “weed” are sterilis, malus, runcō; also ēruncō, sarriō, sarculum. 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.