What is the Latin word for drench?

The usual Latin words for “drench” are irrigō, ūmidus, reddō; also madefaciō, satiō, saturō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“drench” in Latin

irrigōto water or irrigate; to flood or inundate; to overwhelm ūmidusmoist, humid, damp, dank, wet; formerly liquid, frozen; watery, weak reddōto give back, return, restore; to give up, hand over, deliver, render, provide, assign; to surrender, relinquish, delive madefaciōto wet, moisten, dampen; to soak, steep; to intoxicate satiōto satisfy; to sate, satiate; to saturate, impregnate (fill to satiety)saturōto fill to repletion, sate, satisfy ūvidusmoist, wet, damp, humid, dank; drunken; vapid medicāmentumdrug, remedy, medicine pōtiōnōto give to drink faciōto do (particularly as a specific instance or occasion of doing); to make, construct, fashion, frame, build, erect; to m

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

drench

irrigare (to irrigate; poetical rigare): humidum, madidum facere or reddere: madefacere (to make wet): satiare: saturare (to satiate, to saturate, to let anything soak in water): to be drenched, humidum, etc.: fieri, madefieri, madescere: to drench with anything, madefacere aliqua re (e.g., the ground with blood, terrain sanguine) perfundere aliqua re (to wet anything by sprinkling or pouring something over it; e.g., aliquid lacrimis): incessant showers of rain, which drenched the fields or plains, imbres ccntinui campis omnibus inundantes (Liv. 8, 24).

To saturate with drink; e.g., to be drenched with wine, potione completum esse: one that drenches himself with wine, potor, potator: to drench one’s self with wine, potare: se obruere vino.

Drenched, uvidus (e.g., of fields, rura continuis imbribus; vestimenta, Hor.; also “drenched with wine;” Hor.).

To physic by violence, medicamentum or potionem vi inserere in os (equi, etc., after Cic., De Or., 2, 39, 162); potionare (e.g., jumentum, Veg.; a low word, but probably technical term).

drench s.

*largus haustus (a swill; e.g., uno haustu; uno impetu epotare; uno potu haurire) :

Physic for a brute. [Vid: MEDICINE.]

Physic that must be given by violence; e.g., to give a drench. Vid: To DRENCH.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for drench?: The usual Latin words for “drench” are irrigō, ūmidus, reddō; also madefaciō, satiō, saturō. 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.