English → Latin
“clutch” in Latin
rapiōto snatch, grab, carry off, abduct, rape, steal; to snatch (oneself); take off, hurryprehendōto lay hold of, seize, grasp, grab, snatch, take, catch; to detain someone in order to speak with them, accost, lay or ccapiōto take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm; to take on, adopt; to hold, to containunguisfingernail, toenail; talon, claw; hoof
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
clutch
to grasp, manus adhibere alicui rei: manus afferre alicui rei: rapere: arripere aliquid (violently): involare in aliquid (IMPROP., to fly upou anything for the purpose of taking immediate possession of it; e.g., in alienas possessiones): prehendere (to seize upon anything, to hold it): corripere aliquid (to snatch at anything eagerly.
To double the fist, pugnum facere; comprimere in pugnum manus; digitos comprimere pugnumque facere. Vid: FIST.
clutch s.
a taking, seizing, captura: captus.
Claws (plur.), unguis: ungues. FIG., to get into anybody’s clutches, in manus alicujus venire: to tear anything from anybody’s clutches, aliquid ex manibus or ex faucibus alicujus eripere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for clutch?
- The usual Latin words for “clutch” are rapiō, prehendō, capiō; also unguis. 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.