“Down” in Latin

Dunum, -i (m.); County Down, Dunensis Comitatus

Soft feathers, pluma: Swan’s down, plumae cycni: covered with down, pluma obductus.

Down- like hair (PROP., and IMPROP.), lanugo (of the beard: of plants, arundinum, Plin.): pappus (thistle-down, etc., pappi carduorum flores; pappi volantes): covered with a soft down like a spider’s web, araneosa lanugine obductus (Plin.).

Plain, *campus paullo editior.

and preposition, deorsum (downwards): but mostly by de in composition. To bend down, deflectere, detorquere (with force): to bow down (intransitively), inclinari; se demittere: to bring down, deferre: deducere (to lead down): to bring down prices, annonam levare or laxare (of corn); frugum pretia levare. Caes. was brought down (= reduced) to two legions, Caes. ad duas legiones redierat: to burn down, deurere (e.g., pluteos turrium, Cic.): concremare (to destroy by fire, tecta): to be burned down, deflagrare (intransitively); incendio conflagrare (Cic.); conflagrari (Auct. ad Herenn.): to call anybody down, devocare aliquem: to comb down, depectere: to come down, descendere; from, de: to come down in one’s demands, *remitto de iis, quae postulavi; remittere de pretio (to ask lest): to cut down, caedere; decidere (e.g., filicem, Col.; rare): concidere (hew down); trucidare: trucidando occidere; obtruncare (butcher): to cut down woods, silvas sternere dolabris (Curt.): to draw down, detrahere (e.g., lunam, by enchantments): to drop down (= fall down in drops), destillare: to fall down, decidere (general term); procidere: deferri (with force; and down something along which one is carried): devolvi (to roll down; e.g., jumenta cum oneribus devolvebantur, Liv.): defluere, delabi (softly and unperceived; defluere, also of a garment, ad pedes, Verg.): to fall down stairs, scalis devolvi; the steps, praecipitem ire per gradus): to fall down from a height (of water), ex edito desilire: to fall down at anybody’s feet, ad pedes or ad genua alicujus procumbere (or alicui ad pedes, etc.); se demittere or submittere ad alicujus pedes; accidere ad alicujus pedes (or alicui ad pedes): to fall down on one’s knees, in genua procumbere: to float timber down a river, *ligna secundo flumine deferre: deferre ligna (of the stream itself; Liv., 23, 19): to flow down, defluere. delabi (to glide down): decurrere (to run down): to fly down, devolare (from, de): to get down from his horse, ex equo (Cic.) or equo (Sall.) descendere; ex equo desilire (Caes.): to go down, descendere, degredi: to hang down, dependere; from anything, pendere or dependere de aliqua re (also sometimes [1] ex; pendere ex arbore, Cic.; e trabe, Ov.; [2] a or ab sagittae pendent ab humero, Cic.; pendent a vertice, Verg., and [3] ablativeonly; pendent pinu, Verg.; hasta dependet humero, Verg.; aliquem laqueo dependentem invenire, Liv.). Hanging down, dependens: pensilis (of what floats in the air). To help anybody down, alicui dextram tendere (to give him your hand): to knock anybody down, aliquem ad terram dare: aliquem terrae or ad terram affligere: aliquem arietare ad terram (hurl him roughly to the ground; Curt. 9, 7, 22): to lay one’s self down, procumbere (general term): corpus sternere or prosternere (at full length): decumbere: recumbere (on a couch, to eat or sleep): to lay one’s self down, or lie down on anything, recumbere in aliqua re (e.g., in herba): decumbere in aliqua re (e.g., in lecto). To lay down, deponere (general term): to lay down a magistracy, magistratum deponere: de magistratu se abdicare (very seldom magistratum abdicare); magistratu abire: to lay down the command, imperium deponere; their arms, ab armis discedere or recedere: to leap down, desilire (from, ex; into, in): to let one’s self down, se abjicere; to anything, descendere or se demittere ad aliquid: to let down a curtain, aulaeum premere or mittere (i. e., on the stage at the beginning of a play; that being the Roman way of making the stage visible): to look down, despicere: look down upon (= despise); [Vid: DESPISE]: to pour down, defundere: to press down, degravare: to run down, decurrere: to run anything down (figuratively), vituperando affligere aliquid; aliquid abjicere et prosternere; in pejorem partem rapere; anybody, auctoritatem or famam alicujus elevare to send down, demittere: to sink down, (leniter) demitti (= fall down, Vid :); desidere or subsidere (on the ground): to strike down, decutere aliquid (e.g., of lightning; Vid: KNOCK DOWN): to throw down, dejicere: praecipitare or praecipitem dare (headlong): to throw down statues, statuas dejicere, depellere (Cic.): to throw one’s self down, se dejicere (from a wall, de muro; from a rock, de saxo or ex rupe.); se abjicere (from a wall into the sea, e muro in mare; on the grass, in herba: ☞ not in herbam); se praecipitare (headlong; de saxo; in mare): to totter down, titubante gradu degredi (after Col. 10, 309).

UPSIDE DOWN. To turn everything upside down, ima summis miscere or mutare; summa imis confundere; omnia turbare et miscere; omnia in contrarium vertere: caelum et terras miscere.

Down the stream; down a river, secundo flumine or secunda aqua; also secundum naturam fluminis. To swim, sail, flow down the stream, secundo flumine or secunda aqua deferri; also devehi only (Tac.; devectus Tiberi, Arare, etc.).

To pay the money down, praesenti pecunia or numerato solvere; pecuniam repraesentare; in pecunia alicui satisfacere; praesentibus nummis emere aliquid.

To run up and down, sursum deorsum cursitare (Terentianus).

Prov. to be going down the hill (i. e., of life), crescunt anni, decrescunt vires.

as an abridged sentence): down with everything, omnia sternite ferro (Liv. 24, 38): down with it (= pull it down; take it down), demite, avellite.