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“whole” in Latin

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

whole adj.
Sound, unbroken, integer (unmarred. unmutilated; opposed to truncus, laesus, etc.): plenus (full, that has no empty space; complete). (The words are found in this connection and order.) plenus atque integer; solidus (that has no hole).
Entire, complete; all, total; totus (opposed to single parts): integer (of a thing itself in its state of integrity): omnis (every, all; plur., omnes, all, without exception; opposed to nulli, pauci, aliquot, etc.): cunctus (collectively, considered as really united; opposed to dispersi, sejuncti. Hence in the sing., it is used only with collective nouns; e.g., senatus cunctus): universus, universi (all, as united in our conception; opposed to singuli, unusquisque. It excludes exceptions like omnes, but with more reference to the whole than to the separate units that compose it): ☞ omnis Italia, geographically; Italia cuncta, figuratively = all the inhabitants of Italy. In poetry “whole” is sometimes expressed by quam longus (-a, -um); e.g., nunc hiemem inter se luxu, quam longa fovere (Aen. 4, 193); et vacuus somno noctem, quam longa, peregi [scilicet, quam ea longa est] (Ov., Am., 1, 2, 3). The whole world, mundus hic omnis or totus (this world); universitas rerum (the universe): with one’s whole heart, toto pectore: with one’s whole mind, totus ex mente et animo.
whole s.
totum: tota res (opposed to single parts): unum (as an unit): omnia, -ium, neuter (all the part): universum: universa res: universitas (all single parts taken together): universum genus, or simply genus (the whole kind, as opposed to the species): corpus (the whole as forming one independent body): summa (the chief, the most important part in a thing): solidum (a whole debt, as opposed to smaller sums): respublica (the state, as opposed to single citizens): the whole depends upon this, that, etc., totum in eo est, ut, etc.: in the whole, omnino (in comprehending a number of single things, or in opposing a number to a single thing; e.g., there were five in the whole, quinque omnino erant): omni numero (in the entire number; e.g., Padus omni numero triginta flumina in mare Adriaticum defert). But if this expression denotes that a thing is to be comprehended in its totality, then it is rendered by universus (e.g., the thing being taken as a whole, re in universum considerata; si rem omnem spectas).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for whole?
The usual Latin words for “whole” are integer, plēnus, solidus; also compleō, laedō, tōtus. 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.