English → Latin
“cheer” in Latin
cibusfood, fodder; nourishment, sustenance; mealalimentumfood, nourishment, nutriment, sustenance, provisions; obligation to one's parentsepulumfeast, banquet, festive entertainment; dishes, meats.; food.cibāriuspertaining to, or suitable for foodvincōto win; to conquer, to defeat, to vanquish; to overpoweret cēteraet cetera, and the rest, and so on: used to note that the rest of a list or piece of information continues in a similar excipiōto take out, extract, pull out; to except, exempt from, exclude; to rescue, releaseinvītōto invite, summon; to lure; to challengehilaritāscheerfulness, merriment, good humorasperrough, uneven, coarse; unrefined, rude; sharp, newly minted
The English word cheer itself goes back to Latin cara.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cheer
provisions, etc., cibus: alimenta: epulae: cibaria: victus, etc. [SYN. in FOOD.] To give or offer anybody good cheer, apparatis epulis aliquem accipere, excipere, invitare: to load one’s table with good cheer, mensas conquisitissimis epulis exstruere. Poor cheer, victus tenuis (Cic.), asper (Plaut.), parcus (Silius). Princely cheer, victuis basilicus (Plaut.).
State of mind, etc., hilaritas (cheerfulness): laetus animus (good cheer): to be of good cheer, bono or laeto animo esse; animo vigere: with good cheer, alacer. What cheer? quo animo es? quid tibi animi est?I am not in good cheer, non bono sum animo.
Cheers, as shouts of joy or applause, clamor et gaudium (Tac.): clamor laetus (Verg.). To receive anybody with cheers, clamore et gaudio, or clamore laeto aliquem excipere.
cheer v.
TR., hilarare: exhiiarare aliquem (Cic.): relevare, recreare, confirmare aliquem: to cheer up the countenance, vultum exhiiarare: frontem explicare, diffundere vultum or faciem (Sen.): the mind, animum relaxare, discutere: resolvere animi tristitiam: tristes cogitationes discutere (Cels.): to cheer up an afflicted person, excitare, crigere, confirmare afflictum: a desponding person, excitare jacentem or abjectum et jacentem; sublevaro stratum et abjectum: a depressed spirit, animum demissum et oppressum erigere. Any thing cheers me up a little, me recreat et reficit aliquid.
Incite, encourage, excitare aliquem: aliquem or alicujus animum excitare or erigere: aliquem hortari, cohortari, adhortari (ad aliquid): aliquem incitare, incendere, inflammare: stimulos admovere or calcaria adhibere alicui (spur him on): incitare et inflammare alicujus studium.
cheer v.
INTR. To cheer up, animum relaxare; diffundi (Cic.): hilarem se facere (Ter.): frontem explicare (Hor.): exporrigere (Ter.): se erigere, extollere, or suscitare; se consolari (these four all Ciceronian: of cheering up from despondency, etc). Do but chrer up a little, relaxa modo paulum animum (Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for cheer?
- The usual Latin words for “cheer” are cibus, alimentum, epulum; also cibārius, vincō, et cētera. 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.