English → Latin
“dart” in Latin
iaculumA dart, a javelin; A casting net, the weapon of a retiariuspīluma pounder, pestle; a heavy javelin, throwing spear, of the Roman soldierverūtuma light javelin used primarily by the VēlitēslanceaThe Roman auxiliaries' short javelin; a light spear or lance.missilisThat may be thrownmittōto send, dispatch, cause to go, let go, release, discharge; to put out, extend, reach out (one's hand); to announce, teliaculorto throw or hurl; to throw or fight with a javelinfulminōto lighten (strike with lightning); to fulminateincurrōto run into or towards; to attack, invade; to happen (to), befall, occur, to incur
The English word dart itself goes back to Latin dardus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
dart
telum missile; also missile (general terms): jaculum (general term, including the hunting-dart); pilum (a short dart, used by the Roman infantry): verutum: tragulum (military dart) = lancea (a long dart, used by the pretorian guard). ☞ Hasta and lancea serve both for thrusting and hurling; pilum, jaculum, more for hurling (Döderlein): to hurl a dart, missile (jaculum, etc.) mittere. Vid: SPEAR.
dart
To hurl, mittere; jaculari; conjicere. [SYN., etc., in HURL, Vid:] : to dart anything at anybody’s head, in caput alicujus aliquid jaculari: to dart lightning, fulmina jaculari; fulminare.
To dart upon (=fly at; attack), se conjicere in aliquid or aliquem; involare in aliquem or aliquid: also, ad aliquem (Bel., Alex., 52; to fly at): to dart suddenly upon anybody, incurrere or irrumpere in aliquem.
To rush: to dart into a place, involare in locum: conjicere se in locum: raptim intrare locum: praecipitem ire (to dart headlong, in aliquid).
Emit (of beams, etc.), mittere (e.g., lucem mittere). The moon darts her beams to the earth, luna lucem mittit in terram: ☞ jactare lucem (e.g., proprio de corpore, Lucr.) is poetical: jaculari lucem (Plin.).
FIG., To dart a look at anybody, oculos or os in aliquem conjicere: to dart an angry or threatening look at anybody, *infestos, truces or minaces oculos ad aliquem conjicere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for dart?
- The usual Latin words for “dart” are iaculum, pīlum, verūtum; also lancea, missilis, mittō. 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.