English → Latin
“choke” in Latin
animaair, breath; life, ghost; soulsuffōcōto choke, stifle, strangle, suffocate, drownstrangulōto strangle, throttle; to choke, suffocate, smother; to torment, tortureexstinguōto quench, extinguish, put out; to destroy, kill, slay, abolishrestinguōto put out, quench or extinguish; to annihilate; to allay, mitigateauferōto take or snatch away; take by force, remove, take away violently, abduct, rob, steal, snatch, confiscate; to lay asidetollōto raise, lift up, elevate; to remove, take away, steal, rob; to destroy, eliminate, annulobtūrōto stop up, block up; to assuage, allayobstruōto build before or against; build, block, or wall up; stop up, barricade, render impassable; to obstruct, stop up, hinde
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
choke
TR., animam or gpiritum intercludere (to stop the breath violently): suffocare (to kill by closing the organs of respiration, whether by an internal obstacle [quem crassior saliva suffocat. Sen.] or by external means): [alicui elidere spiritum, or (poetically) fauces, or collum, is to kill by external pressure on the throat: to throttle, strangulare, with a cord, etc.] INTR. suffocari: spiritu intercluso exstingui: by anything, *aliqua re suffocare.
IMPROPR., suffocare: strangulare (to bind too tight, and so deprive of nourishment, e.g., trees): exstinguere: restinguere: auferre: tollere. Fear chokes his voice, metus vocem praecludit.
Block up, obturare: obstruere. Vid: OBSTRUCT.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for choke?
- The usual Latin words for “choke” are anima, suffōcō, strangulō; also exstinguō, restinguō, auferō. 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.