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“crack” in Latin
crepitusa rattling, creaking, rustling, clattering; flatulencefragora breaking, shattering; a crash; an uproarrīmaa cleft, crack, fissure, chink; the vulva, female genitaliafindōto cleave, break up, separate, divide, split, part; to split, burst; to dividerīmōsusfull of cracks, chinks, or fissures; cracked; chapped (of skin)dūcōto lead, guide, conduct, lead away; to take; to draw, pullcrepōto rattle, rustle, clatter; to crack, creak; to prattle, talk noisilydissiliōto burst asunder, fly apart; To leapdisplōdōto spread out, dilate, extend; to burst, cause to exploderumpōto break, burst, tear, rend, rupture; break asunder, force open; to break, split, rupture, burst; to break; break off, t
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
crack s.
The sound of anything cracking, sonitus fragilis (Lucr., 6, 111): crepitus, fragor (the noise produced by fire, thunder, houses, etc., that come down).
A chink, rima (general term): fissura (of larger size): little crack, rimula: little cracks, parvulae rimulae (Cels. 8, 4). Full of cracks, rimosus: plenus rimarum (Terentianus; but figuratively): to be full of cracks, fissuris dehiscere: *plurimas rimas egisse or duxisse.
crack
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To produce a sound, sonitum fragilem dare (☞ Lucr., 6, 110, sqq.): fragorem dare (of a loud sound): crepare (to rattle).
To open in chinks, rimas agere; rimas fieri pati (rimas ducere is poetical): findi (e.g., of the skin, the soil, etc.): se findere: dissilire (to burst asunder); displodi (burst with an explosive sound): rumpi: dirumpi (burst by force): dehiscere: discedere (gape open, of the earth; discedere magnis quibusdam imbribus, Cic., Off. 3, 9): to crack from the effect of frost, rumpi gelu.
To boast; Vid. CRACK, TR., findere (e.g., sol findere statuas, arva, etc. also of the skin, and of a bone; opposed to frangere, perfringere, to break it) [diffindere (is to cleave, split; e.g., saxum): displodere (to make it burst with an explosive sound)] : to crack nuts, nuces frangere: to crack a joke, jocularia fundere: ridicula jactitare (both in Liv., 7, 7): to crack dirty jokes, crepare immunda dicta (Hor.): to crack anybody’s skull with a stone, alicujus caput saxo elidere, or (Plaut.) dirumpere: to crack a whip, flagello insonare (Verg.); (equos, boves, etc.) flagello admonere (to crack it for the purpose of urging on one’s team); cracked lips, labrorum fissurae (e.g., efficax asini sevum labrorum fissuris, Plin.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for crack?
- The usual Latin words for “crack” are crepitus, fragor, rīma; also findō, rīmōsus, dūcō. 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.