English → Latin
“butt” in Latin
prōpōnōto set forth, to put forth, to lay out; to expose to view, display; to make knownictusa beating time, a beat; a beat of the pulse; an attack, shotscopusa targetferiōto hit, to strike, to smite, to beat, to knock, injure; to cut, to thrust; to kill by striking, to slay, to give a deathsumto be, exist; there be; to gofīnisend; limit, border, bound boundary, frontier; boundaries, bounds, frontiers; by extension, territory, region, landslūdibriummockery, derision; wantonness; laughing stockpetulcusbutting (of horns or head); wanton, friskydōliuma large earthenware vessel, hogshead, cask; cauldron, large brass pot, barrel, vatlabrumlip; edge, margin, brim, lip
The English word butt itself goes back to Latin buttis.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
butt
Scopus; goal: to aim at a butt, destinatum petere (Liv.): to hit a butt, *scopum ferire or ferire only (Hor.).
Point at which the endeavor is directed, propositum: is qui mihi est (fuit, etc, . propositus exitus: finis. Vid: Not scopus in this meaning.
To make a butt of one, aliquem ludibrio habere; putare sibi aliqnem pro ridiculo et delectamento. To be one’s butt, ludibrio ease alicui.
Blow, ictus.
butt v.
cornu ferire, cornu petere.
Of a ram, arietare in aliquem. Butting, qui cornu petit, petulcus.
butt
cask, dolium, labrum.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for butt?
- The usual Latin words for “butt” are prōpōnō, ictus, scopus; also feriō, sum, fīnis. 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.