English → Latin
“crop” in Latin
ingluviēsthe crop of birds; gluttony, voraciousnessmetōto reap, harvest; to cut, crop or snip off; to cut through, severfruorto enjoy; to derive pleasure from; to engage (in)segesa field sown or planted with wheat, oats, or barley; a field of standing or growing wheat, oats, or barley, etc.; a croppōmumany type of fruit (applied to apples, cherries, nuts, berries, figs, dates, etc.); fruit treearbora tree; something made from a tree, of wood; the polypus (imagined to have arms like the branches of a tree)curtōto shorten, cut short, abbreviatedētruncōto lop off, cut off; to mutilate (the body from which a limb is cut off), beheadrecidōto fall back, return (especially of an evil); to recoil; to fall upon, happen topraecīdōto cut off in front or through; shorten; sever, separate; to beat to pieces, batter, smash; to cut off or across, avoid,
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
crop s.
The craw of a bird, ingluvies.
Fruits of the earth, trees, etc., messis (PROP. the time of the harvest and the fruits, etc.: that are gathered): fructus (the produce; IMPROP., the profit): seges (the standing corn; also green crops, before they are cut; also figuratively; but poetically, and rare in this sense): fructus arborum: poma, plur.; arborum baccae, and baccae only (produce of trees; opposed to terrae fruges); quae ex arboribus gignuntur. An abundant crop, messis opima; seges grandissima atque optima (Varr.): ubertas in fructibus percipiendis: to gather the crops, messem facere (of harvest): fructus demetere et percipere; fructus percipere: the crops have been very fine this year, magnum frugum fructuumque proventum annus hic attulit (after Plin., Ep., 1, 13, 1); hic annus copiam frugum fructuumque effudit (after Cic., Brut., 9, 36): abundant crops, uberrimi laetissimique fructus (crops of vineyards and olive-yards): the gathering of the crops, frugum perceptio: to sow crops, fruges or fructus serere: to store or house crops, fructus comportare et condere: vines with a large crop of grapes, graves fructu vites: to yield a good crop, fructum ferre; fructum edere ex se: vineyards yield a very profitable crop, uberrimus est vinearum reditus: to gather an abundant crop, large condere: this field produces a good crop, hic ager efficit plurimum: this estate produces abundant crops, hic fundus est fructuosissimus.
A crop (= hair cut close), capilli detonsi, praecisi, etc.
crop v.
Cut short, decurtare (to shorten by cutting): curtare (to shorten, to diminish): detruncare (to mutilate by cutting): recidere (mostly poetically and post Augustan prose: pilos, barbam, capillos): praecidere (e.g., capillos): to crop the hair or head, praecidere, or detondere capillos, or crines: to crop the hair very short, caput attondere (Cels., 4, 3; of cutting it away in illness): to crop a man’s ears, aures decidere (Tac.).
To pluck or cut off (produce), metere: demetere (to mow, to cut off): legere (of fruit): sublegere (in case of too great an abundance on the trees): detrahere alicui aliquid (to take off or down): carpere: decerpere (of flowers and general term): destringere alicui aliquid (of berries and leaves together): avellere (to pluck off).
Of cattle, depascere: depascere herbas: derodere (to nibble or gnaw off; vites): tondere (gramina, pabula, dumeta): attondere (e.g., virgulta, Verg.): detondere (e.g., salices, gramina, Nemes., Ecl., 1, 6): CROP-FULL, satur: plenus: cibo satiatus: exsatiatus cibo vinoque.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for crop?
- The usual Latin words for “crop” are ingluviēs, metō, fruor; also seges, pōmum, arbor. 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.