What is the Latin word for chop?

The usual Latin words for “chop” are dēcidō, abscīdō, praecīdō; also succīdō, dēsecō, dēvorō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“chop” in Latin

dēcidōto fall down or off; collapse; drop, hang down; to die, fall dead; to sink, perish abscīdōto cut off (with an instrument), cut short; to amputate; to deprive (of), cut off, detract praecīdōto cut off in front or through; shorten; sever, separate; to beat to pieces, batter, smash; to cut off or across, avoid,succīdōto cut off, through, or away from below, cut or mow down, fell dēsecōto sever, cut off; to cut, reap or mow (a crop)dēvorōto swallow, gulp down, or devour; enjoy; to swallow down, repress, suppress, check, bear with patience; to absorb comedōto eat or chew up; to consume or devour; to fret or chafe mūtōto move, remove; to alter, change, modify, transform; to vary, diversify permūtōto change or alter throughout or completely, transform; to interchange or exchange something for another, swap; exchange commūtōto change or alter entirely; modify, correct, reform, transform; to decay, spoil, rot; to exchange something with anothe

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

chop

off, decidere: abscidere (to cut off with a sharp instrument; not to be confounded with abscindere, which is to tear off violently): praecidere (chop of from the fore part of anything): succidere (from below): desecare. To chop off anybody’s head, caput alicui abscidere or praecidere (both Liv.): abscidere caput a cervicibus alicujus (a dead man’s, Cic.): caput decidere alicui gladio (Curt.): anybody’s hands, manus alicui praecidere (Hirt.): manum praecidere gladio (Cic.): anybody’s ears, desecare aures (Caes.): decidere aures (Ter.).

Chop up, mince, concidere: minute, or minutim, or minutatim concidere: minutatim consecare.

Devour eagerly, devorare, or comedere.

Exchange, mutare: permutare: commutare.

To chop round (of the wind), se vertere (e.g., to the southwest) in Africum.

Altercate, altercari (cum aliquo): to chop logic with anybody, *dialectice disputare cum aliquo: *dialecticis acuminibus aliquem compungere (after Cic., 2 De Or., 158).

Of the skin, scindi: a chopped skin, rhagades or rhagadia (Plin.; written by Cels. as a Greek word: cutis scinditur: ῥαγάδια Graeci vocant).

chop

portion chopped off [Vid: CHIP].

Of meat, offa, more commonly ofella (e.g., quae non egeant ferro structoris ofellae, Martialis). A mutton chop, perhaps *ofella vervecina. A pork chop, offa or ofella porcina (offa penita, Plaut.., is thus defined by Festus, offa porcina cum cauda in coenis puris offa penita vocatur).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for chop?: The usual Latin words for “chop” are dēcidō, abscīdō, praecīdō; also succīdō, dēsecō, dēvorō. 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.