English → Latin
“clip” in Latin
complectorto embrace or hug; to encircle, surround, encompass; to comprehend, understandamplectorto surround, encircle or entwine; to embrace, hug, clasp or grasp; to include, comprise, containtondeōto shave, shear, clip; to crop, prune, trim; to mow, reapdētondeōto shave, shear, strip or cut offresecōto cut off or loose; to curtail, stop; to check, restraincircumcīdōto cut around, make an incision around, clip, trim; circumcise; ring (a bark); to cut off, shorten, diminish, abridge, cpraecīdōto cut off in front or through; shorten; sever, separate; to beat to pieces, batter, smash; to cut off or across, avoid,dētruncōto lop off, cut off; to mutilate (the body from which a limb is cut off), beheadintercidōto fall between; to occur meanwhile, happen; to be lost or forgotten, fall to the ground, perish, go to ruin
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
clip
hug, complecti, amplecti.
Shear, crop, tondere, detondere; resecare (cut away), circumcidere (cut round): praecidere (cut off the end): decurtare (to cut short, and so mutilate, Cic.): detruncare. To clip one’s wings, pennas alicui incidere or intercidere. To clip trees, arbores putare or amputare (lop, prune; opposed to immittere), decacuminare (to lop them), detruncare (to lop, Licinius), collucare, interlucure (thin it below), sublucare (general term), intervellere (thin it by pulling or cutting out boughs here and there), tondere (clip, as a hedge). To clip coin, nummos circumcidere. To clip words, litteras, syllabas opprimere. FIG., take away useless matter (of a writing. etc.). resecare, circumcidere. praecidere, amputare, circumscribere. coercere. To clip away gaudy ornaments, ambitiosa recidere. To clip (general term, i. e., to reduce, lessen), minuere, imminuere, deminuere. extenuare: detrahere, deminuere aliquid de aliqua re.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for clip?
- The usual Latin words for “clip” are complector, amplector, tondeō; also dētondeō, resecō, circumcīdō. 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.