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“badger” in Latin
faenerātorusurer, moneylender / money-lender / money lendermēlēsmarten; badgercruciōto crucify; to tortureexcruciōto torment greatly, torture, rack, plague; afflict, distress, harass, vex; to force out by torturing, extorttorqueōto spin, whirl, twirl, turn, cause to revolve; to twist, wind, bend awry, distort; to hurl violently, twirl (around the stimulōto urge on, goad on, stimulate, rouse up; to torment, vex, trouble, disquiet, disturbangōto bind, draw, press together; to choke, throttle, strangle (replaced in Classical Latin by suffoco); to cause physical vexōto shake or jolt violently; to harass, annoy; to vex, trouble (strong term, involving violence)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
badger
ursus meles (Liv.). The meles or maeles of the ancients is, however, more probably the marten. Vid: Schneider, Varr., R.R., 3, 12, 3.
One who speculates in corn or provisions, fenerator or tocullio, ex annonae caritate lucrans (Suet., Ner., 45).
badger v.
a., cruciare; excruciare; torquere; stimulare: angere; vexare: to badger with questions, aliquem rogitando obtundere: to badger to death with questions, aliquem rogitando enecare: to badger with entreaties, aliquem precibus fatigare: to badger with complaints, aliquem querelis angero. [The canis vertagus (hound employed in badger-hunting, Liv.) expels with difficulty the badger from his hole (caverna ursi melis), when the animal is hunted for his skin, pellis ursi melis; hence to annoy incessantly is “to badger,” or treat as you would a badger.]
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for badger?
- The usual Latin words for “badger” are faenerātor, mēlēs, cruciō; also excruciō, torqueō, stimulō. 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.