English → Latin
“elapse” in Latin
praetereōto pass by or go by; to surpass or excel; to disregard, neglect, omit or misstrānseōto traverse; cross, cross over; go across or over; pass, pass through, over or by; to defect, go over (to an adverse sidintercēdōto intervene; to intercede; to interrupt or hinderinterpōnōto put, place or lay between or among; to insert, interpose or introduce (often in a bad way); to pledgeintersumto be or lie between; to be apart; to differperagōto pierce, transfix; to traverse, pass through; to harass, disturb, annoycōnficiōto prepare, accomplish, complete, execute; settle, close a bargain; traverse; to produce, cause, bring about, effect, secircumagōto drive or turn in a circle; to turn round; to turn a wheelcōnsūmōto take wholly or completely; to consume, devour, waste, squander, use up; annihilate, destroy, bring to naught; to killeffluōto flow or run forth or out; escape; to go out, issue forth; to vanish, disappear, melt away
The English word elapse itself goes back to Latin lābor, through elapsus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
elapse
(of time)(of time), praeterire: transire (to pass by): *intercedere: interponi: interesse: interjectum esse (to be placed between one event or point of time and a subsequent one): peragi: confici (to be spent): circumagi (to roll round): consumi (to be consumed): effluere (to pass away rapidly and unprofitably; not simply “to elapse”). ☞ Not praeterlabi; nor elabi, elapsus, except in the sense of slipping away unprofllably; as Sen.; magna vitae pars elabitur male agentibus. Hardly a year had elapsed since this conversation occurred, vix annus intercesserat ab hoc sermone: ten days had not yet elapsed, dies nondum decem intercesserant: after two years were already elapsed, biennio jam confecto. Nearly thirty years elapsed between the building of Lavinium and the founding the colony of Alba Longa, inter Lavinium et Albam Longam deductam triginta ferme interfuere anni: two years have elapsed, amplius sunt sex anni.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for elapse?
- The usual Latin words for “elapse” are praetereō, trānseō, intercēdō; also interpōnō, intersum, peragō. 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.