English → Latin
“chase” in Latin
vēnorto chase, hunt, pursue game/quarry; to strive for, or pursue any objective, whether concrete or abstract in naturesectorto follow continually, attend, accompany; to follow after, pursue, chase; to seek after/outagōto act, to behave; to do; to make (something that does not continue to exist after the maker stops)pellōto push, drive, hurl, impel, propel; expel, banish, eject, thrust out; to strike, set in motion; to rout, put to flight,expellōto drive or thrust out or away; expel, eject, banish; dislodge; to force or drive out or away, expel, removeextrūdōto thrust or drive out; to draw outvertōto turn, turn oneself, direct one's way, to turn about, turn around, revolve; to turn upside down, overturn, overthrow, convertōto turn upside-down; to invert; to turn over (soil etc); to turn back or recoilvēnātiōhunting, the chase, venery; huntvēnāticushunting
The English word chase itself goes back to Latin capiō, through *captiāre.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
chase
hunt, venari: excitare et agitare (drive from covert and pursue): sectari (pursue): canibus venari (hunt with dogs).
FIG., to follow as a thing desirable, venari aliquid (e.g., landem): sectari or consectari aliquid.
Drive away, agere: pellere: expellere: ejicere: extrudere (the three last, chase out of or from). To chase to a place, agere usque ad locum (e.g., hostes ad castra): from the city, etc., civitate aliquem pellere, expellere, ejicere: from one’s houses, aliquem domo extrudere a sese.
Put to flight (enemies, etc), aliquem fugare, aliquem in fugam dare, vertere, convertere or conjicere: persequi: insequi (to pursue):
To chase metals. Vid: ENCHASE.
chase s.
venatio: venatus (PROP. and figuratively, the former as action): venandi studium (lore for it). Belonging or relating to the chase, venaticus: venatorius. To be fond of the chase, venandi studiosum esse; *venandi studio teneri: to accompany anybody to a chase, venantem comitari. To live by the chase, venando ali. The goddess of the chase, dea venatrix (Ov.).
Animals chased, venatus: venatio (e.g., frequens ibi et varia venatio).
Beasts of chase, ferae: ferae majores, minores. The right of chase, *jus feras (minores or majores) venandi.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for chase?
- The usual Latin words for “chase” are vēnor, sector, agō; also pellō, expellō, extrūdō. 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.