Latin Recommended Basic Vocabulary


Nouns and Related Words: Body

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



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