English → Latin
“woman” in Latin
fēminawoman; wife; femalemuliera woman, female; a wife; a coward, poltroonpuellagirl, lass, maiden (female child); sweetheart, mistress, beloved maiden; young woman, young wifevirgōa maiden, maid; an unmarried young woman or girl (typically nubile, i.e., of marriageable age and social status); a virgiuvenisA youth, a young man, young woman, young adult (between ages 20-40), (older than an adulescens but younger than a senioranusold woman, old maid, crone, matronvetulusold; little old, poor old
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
woman
femina (in respect of sex; opposed to vir): mulier (with reference to age, not a girl): sexus muliebris (woman collectively; i. e., the female sex). A young woman, puella (a girl): virgo (a virgin): adolescentula; juvenis (the former, a young person up to twenty or even thirty years of age; the latter, from thirty to fifty, but sometimes used also for the former): an old woman, anus (general term): vetula (implying dislike or contempt). Woman-kind, sexus muliebris (the female sex): mulieres (women of staid age): feminae (women; opposed to viri, men): women’s clothes, vestis muliebris; vestimentum muliebre: in women’s clothes, veste muliebri indutus; in muliebrem modum ornatus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for woman?
- The usual Latin words for “woman” are fēmina, mulier, puella; also virgō, iuvenis, anus. 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.