English → Latin
“elude” in Latin
ēlūdōto finish play, cease to sport; to deceive, trick, fool, cheat, frustrate, delude; to escape, avoid, evade, dodge, shun,vītōto avoid, evade; to shunfugiōto flee, fly, take flight, escape, depart, run, run away, recede; to speed, hasten, pass quickly; to avoid, shun, be aveeffugiōto flee from, escape; to avoid, evadedēfugiōto flee, escape; to shun, avoidtergiversorto seek an evasion, to tergiversatehastaa spear, lance, pike, carried by soldiers and used for thrustingPetrōniusof or pertaining to the gens Petronia
The English word elude itself goes back to Latin lūdō, through ēlūdō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
elude
eludere (to avoid a blow in fencing; hastas, Martisalis; also pugnam, Liv.; manus scrutantium, Petronius; vim legis, Suet.): declinare aliquid, or a re (to bend out of its way): vitare, evitare aliquid; fugere, effugere, defugere, subterfugere aliquid (the last, of doing it secretly): tergiversari: ficte et simulate loqui (to elude the point, in conversation; to avoid speaking one’s real opinion). elabi alicui rei or ex re (lo slip out). To elude a blow, ictum effugere; petitionem vitare; an attack, impetum alicujus declinare; aliquem eludere: a question, alio responsionem suam derivare: a danger, periculum vitare, effugere; periculo evadere: anything eludes anybody’s penetration, fugit aliquid aciem alicujus: to elude the law, legi (senatus consulto, etc.) fraudem facere: the law is eluded by anybody, fraus fit legi per aliquem (Liv. 10, 13).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for elude?
- The usual Latin words for “elude” are ēlūdō, vītō, fugiō; also effugiō, dēfugiō, tergiversor. 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.