English → Latin
“brush” in Latin
pēniculusa brush [for removing dust] (for which ox-tails and horse-tails were used); a sponge (a soft kind used for medical purpoincurrōto run into or towards; to attack, invade; to happen (to), befall, occur, to incursaetaa bristle, (rough) hair on an animal; silk (the meaning of most descendants in modern languages)verrōto scrape, sweep out or up, brush, scour, clean out; to sweep along, drive, impel; to sweep away, carry off, take awayēverrōto sweep or clean outtergeōto rub, wipe, wipe off, clean, cleanse; to polish, burnish; to tickle, whetdētergeōto wipe off, wipe away, clean by wiping; to chase away, drive away, remove; to strip off, break offextergeōto wipe out, off or away; wipe dry, clean; to strip clean, plunder, scourstringōto draw tight together, to tie together; to pull or strip off, cut off, pluck off, clip off, prune; to unsheathpraestringōto bind fast; to tie up; to squeeze tight; to compress; to graze, glance off
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
brush s.
penicillus or peniculus: for coating a wall, penicillus tectorius: for clothes, peniculus or penicillus. A brush of bristles, seta, *scopae setis factae.
Assault, etc., impetus, incursus; pugna levis.
brush v.
verrere, everrere; (penicillo) tergere, detergere, extergere. He brushed away a tear, lacrimam detersit. The south wind brushes the clouds away, notus deterget nubila caelo. Brush off the dew, rorem excutere. To brush up, pingere; ornare, exornare; reficere.
Sweep over, graze, verrere; stringere, praestringere, destringere.
To brush by, praetervolare.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for brush?
- The usual Latin words for “brush” are pēniculus, incurrō, saeta; also verrō, ēverrō, tergeō. 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.