English → Latin
“yard” in Latin
āreaa piece of level ground, a vacant place (esp. in the town); ground for a house, a building-spot; a vacant space around oantennayard on a ship; antenna in insects etc.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
yard
A court, area: chors (for cattle; Vid: COURT).
A measure of three feet, duo cubitus (a cubitus being a foot and a half: ☞ the Roman gradus is less than a yard, about 2½ feet; ulna is much more than a yard). A yard long, tripedalis (of three Roman feet).
The support of a sail, antenna (Caes.), or antennae, plur., (Ov., Hirt.): ☞ cornua = the extremities of the yard.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for yard?
- The usual Latin words for “yard” are ārea, antenna. 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.