English → Latin
“batter” in Latin
pulsōto push, strike, beat, batter, hammer; knock on; pulsate; to urge or drive on, impel, move, agitate, disturb, disquiet; verberōto lash, beat, strike; to whip, scourge, flogperfundōto pour (liquid) over or through; to perfuse; to flood or bathe, drench; to imbue, inspire, fill with any thingēlīdōto knock, dash or strike out; to tear, force or squeeze out; to shatter or crushdīminuōto break into small pieces; to shatter; to violate, outrage; to diminish, lessencontundōto beat or pound to a pulp; to bruise, make sore; to utterly subduecaputthe head (of humans and animals); head; top; summit; point; end; extremity (beginning or end); origin; source; spring; hcerebruma brain; a skull; an upper pitharxstronghold, castle, citadel, fortress, acropolis; height, summit, pinnacle, top, peak (since castles were often built on
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
batter v.
TR., pulsare: verberare: perfundere; elidere (to batter anybody’s head with a stone, alicujus caput saxo): diminuere (caput, cerebrum): contundere (aliquem saxis): batter down, disjicere (arcem, moenia, munitiones): diruere or demoliri (tecta, muros, urbem, monumentum); e fundamentis disjicere; funditus evertere: battered, confectus, perfractus; elisus; disjectus: battering-ram, machina, qua muros quatiunt or percutiunt; aries: to bring the battering-ram against the walls, arietem muro or muris admovere: to shake the wall with the battering-ram, ariete or arietis pulsu murum quatere: the battering-ram has made a breach in the wall, aries percussit murum.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for batter?
- The usual Latin words for “batter” are pulsō, verberō, perfundō; also ēlīdō, dīminuō, contundō. 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.