Latin Recommended Basic Vocabulary


Nouns and Related Words: Body

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Body
English Latin
hair, looks crinis
neck collum
arm bracchium
cheek gena
imago, imagin- appearance, idea, kind
formosus form, face, manner
left laevus
foot soldier pedes, pedit-
hinder impedio impedivi, impeditus
species form, shape, figure
head caput, capit-
kiss osculum
tongue lingua
miles milia passum
palm (hand and tree) palma
right hand dexter, dextr-
blood sanguis
figura beautiful
foliage frons, frond-
forma limb, member
mouth os, or-
neck cervix, cervic-
bone os, oss-
pace passus
hair coma
back tergum
face, expression, look vultus
left hand sinister, sinistr-
eye oculus
finger digitus
vestis condition or appearance of the body, dress
set free, set forth, explain expedio, expedivi, expeditus
forehead frons, front-
habitus image, idea, ghost
hand manus
chest pectus, pectror
body corpus, corpor-
a hair capillus
foot pes, ped-
form, figure, face, manner facies
heart cor, cord-
toot dens, dent-
lap, embrace gremium
membrum vestigium footstep, trace
body corpus, corpor-



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