English → Latin
“bait” in Latin
obdūcōto lead, conduct, bring or draw towards, before, forward or against; to cover by drawing over; cover over, overlay, overdēvertōto turn away, turn aside; to turn in, put up at, lodge; to resort todēversorto lodge or stay (as a guest)vexōto shake or jolt violently; to harass, annoy; to vex, trouble (strong term, involving violence)agitōto act, behave, do, or make persistently or unremittingly; to put something in motion, drive, impel; drive by rowing, roēscafood; fodder; fuel, especially firewoodillecebraenticement, lurecibusfood, fodder; nourishment, sustenance; meal
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
bait v.
to furnish a hook, etc., with a bait, escam imponere or obducere (a hook, hamo).
To allure by food a fish, etc.; i. e., to bait for: inescare; cibo inescare; cibo allicere.
On a journey, subsistere in itinere; iter intermittere (to suspend one’s journey): devertere: deverti: deversari (to turn in for refreshment, etc.): at anybody’s house, ad or apud aliquem: anywhere, ad or in locum. Observe, divertere can not be used except where the parties separate, and some go to one inn, some to another. To bait horses, equorum reficiendorum causa subsistere (after Caes., B. Civ., 2, 42, end): equorum reficiendorum causa apud aliquem, or ad aliquem locum devereari.
To set dogs upon, immittere canes alicui or in aliquem.
To attack as dogs do, morsu apprehendere; mordicus premere aliquid: morsu appetere aliquem. Figuratively = assail pertinaciously: invadere in aliquem: incursare in aliquem: vexare, agitare, lacessere aliquem.
To bait a bear or a bull, ursum or taumm cum canibus committere.
bait s.
esca, illecebra (PROP. and IMPROP.): cibus ad fraudem alicujus positus: also, from context, cibus only. To catch with a bait, cibo inescare.
BULL-bait. Vid: BULL.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for bait?
- The usual Latin words for “bait” are obdūcō, dēvertō, dēversor; also vexō, agitō, ēsca. 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.