English → Latin
“wire” in Latin
trānsennaa trap or snare made of netting; a net used as a container, or netting or lattice used as a screenrēticuluma net; a fishnet; a hairnetfēstusOf or pertaining to holidays; festive, festal, joyful, merry.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
wire
*filum tortum: *filum metallicum (wire of metal): *filum ferreum (iron wire). To draw wire, *aes in fila ducere: wire work, transenna (wire netting, as it were, for windows; grating of wire-work): reticulum (net of cat-gut; but also of wire; Festus, in voc. Secespitam): net-work of brass wire, reticulum aeneum: a wire string (of a musical instrument), *chorda metallica.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for wire?
- The usual Latin words for “wire” are trānsenna, rēticulum, fēstus. 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.