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“damp” in Latin
văpōrōsusfull of steamūmidusmoist, humid, damp, dank, wet; formerly liquid, frozen; watery, weaklaxuswide, spacious, roomy; yielding; loose, slack, freedēmittōto send or bring down, cause to hang or fall down; drop, flow, shed, sag, let fall; to sink, lower, put down; to cast dotrīstissad, unhappy, melancholy, morose; sorrowful, mournful; disagreeable, harsh, bitter (of taste)abiciōto throw or hurl down or away, cast or push away or aside; to give up, abandon; expose; discard; to humble, degrade, redvaporsteam, exhalation, vapour; smoke; warm exhalation, warmth, heat; ardour of love, warmthexhālātiōexhalation (act, and vapour expelled by breathing out); evaporationnebulafog; cloud; vaporūmorliquid, fluid, humour; moisture
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
damp adj.
vaporis plenus: vaporosus (Apul., Met., 8, p. 222, 31, etc.), humidus; humore vitiatus (if the dampness is perceptible by the smell): laxus (not well strung, hanging loosely, opposed to astrictus).
FIG., (Milton) demissus; tristis; abjectus.
damp s.
vapor; exhalatio; nebula (mist); humor.
FIG., animi demissio; animus abjectus, or afflictus, or jacens: don’t let him perceive that there is a damp upon your spirits, cave te esse tristem sentiat (Ter., Andr., 2, 3, 29): to dispel the damp that is upon anybody’s spirits, animum alicujus jacentem excitare.
damp v.
humectare (e.g., the cheeks with tears, genas lacrimis): to be damped, humescere: the eyes are damped with tears, oculus humectat.
FIG., to depress, deprimere; comprimere; restinguere; sedare: to damp the fire, ignem, incendium restinguere: to damp the impetuosity, impetum comprimere or sedare: to damp anybody’s courage, alicujus animum, or aliquem frangere (opposed to alicujus animum excitare, or aliquem erigere); alicujus animum infringere, or affligere, or percellere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for damp?
- The usual Latin words for “damp” are văpōrōsus, ūmidus, laxus; also dēmittō, trīstis, abiciō. 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.