English → Latin
“cut out” in Latin
excōgitōto contrive, devise or invent (by thinking); to think up or create out of nothinginveniōto find; to discover, find out, learn; to come upon, meet withcomminīscorto devise, contrive, inventcoquōto cook; prepare food; to ripen; to roast, dryconcoquōto boil or seethe together, cook thoroughly; concoct; to prepare, ripen, mature; to digestmāchinorto devise, invent; to plot evil, contrivesuperōto surmount, rise over, rise above, go over, ascend, overtop, mount; to go over, pass over, surpass, exceed, traverse; tantecēdōto precede (go before or in front of); to excel or surpass; to distinguish oneself, to become eminentpraecēdōto precede (go before); to surpass or excelanteeōto go before, precede (walk on ahead); to surpass; to anticipate
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cut out
To shape; e.g., *pannum in habitum vestis consecare (to cut out a coat, or any garment or dress): formare (to give anything the shape or form which it requires): conformare (to shape so as to produce symmetry in the various or different parts of the whole): fingere; confingere; figurare; formam alicujus rei facere; imaginem alicujus rei ducere; sculpere; scalpere [SYN. in To FORM]. (The words are found in this connection and order.) fingere et formare: to cut out anything after a certain pattern, aliquid in fcrmam alicujus rei redigere.
To contrive, excogitare; cogitatione assequi; invenire; comminisci; coquere; concoquere (the two latter in a bad sense); machinari (stronger term).
To adapt: one cut out for a thing, natus ad aliquid: cut out for anything, for an (orator), unus ex omnibus ad (dicendum) maxime natus aptusque: he is quite cut out for a philosopher, inest natura philosophia in hujus viri mente quaedam; also ad aliquid factus; alicui rei or ad aliquid natus factusque (opposed to ad aliquid doctus or institutus): to be cut out for athq, idoneum esse ad aliquid: not to be cut out for anything, alienum esse alicui rei: non utilem or inutilem esse ad aliquid.
To outdo, superare or exsuperare aliquem (in) aliqua re; vincere aliquem aliqua re; antecedere or praecedere, or anteire, or praestare aliquem, or alicui aliqua re; priorem esse aliqua re; esse ante aliquem aliqua re; excellere (in) aliqua re; e.g., all others, aliis [SYN. in To EXEL].
To debar, excludere; segregare; removere [SYN. in To EXCLUDE]. To cut anybody out from anything, aliquem a re excludere, segregare; excludere aliquem re (e.g., honore magistrates).
To cut out with a sharp instrument (e.g., with a knife, scissors, etc.), exsecare: exsculpere [Vid: To CUT, init.] : excidere (with an axe, pick-axe, etc.; e.g., lapides e terra; columnas rupibus): to cut out a road between the mountains, viam inter montes excidere: to cut out an obelisk, obeliscum excidere: to cut out the leaves (of a book), librum intercidere (if for the purpose of falsifying it, Plin. Ep., 6, 22, 4, Gierig). To CUT SHORT,
To abridge, contrahere (e.g., orationem); in angustum cogere; amputare; imminuere; notare. [SYN. in To ABRIDGE also, To ABBREVIATE.]
To interrupt suddenly, interpellare (to interrupt a speaker, or one who speaks); also obloqui alicui (if for the purpose of contradicting him): intercipere (to check or interrupt suddenly or abruptly, e.g., sermonem medium): intervenire alicui rei (to step, as it were, between and interfere; e.g., deliberationi): dirimere (to cause to stop entirely; e.g., sermonem): moram facere alicui rei: moram afferre alicujus or alicui rei: cohibere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for cut out?
- The usual Latin words for “cut out” are excōgitō, inveniō, comminīscor; also coquō, concoquō, māchinor. 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.