“feel” in Latin

To feel by the touch, tangere: tentare, with or without digitis: tactu explorare (both for the sake of examining): attrectare; contrectare; pertrectare, also with the addition of manibus (to touch, handle): to feel anybody’s pulse, alicujus venam tentare (Suet.) or tangere (Persius); tangere aliquem, or alicujus manum, venam (Plin., Ep., 7, 1, 4; where some editions have the one reading, some the other); apprehendere manu brachium (Cels., 3, 6; where there is also corpori manum admovere). To feel anybody, etc. (to see whether he carries anything about him that is prohibited), excutere aliquem (in the sense in which the Romans did this, namely “by shaking anybody’s gown”). To feel anybody’s bed (to see if anything is concealed in it), alicujus culcitas et stragula praetentare et excutere (Suet.; praetentare = before one does something).

To perceive; i. e., to become conscious of anything, sentire (also with a following participle as supplement; used of both bodily and mental sensation; also of becoming conscious or aware of anything; in which sense, (The words are found in this connection and order.) sentire atque intelligere): (sensu) percipere (to comprehend or apprehend with one’s senses): intelligere (to comprehend): affici aliqua re (to be affected by bodily or mental pain). To feel pain in some part of the body (e.g., in one’s feet, etc.), sentire alicujus rei dolorem; dolore alicujus rei affici or affectum esse; dolet aliquid: to feel pain at or about anything, dolere aliquid or ex aliqua re (e.g., at anybody’s death, alicujus mortem, ex alicujus interitu); laborare aliqua re (to suffer from anything; e.g., alienis malis); acerbe ferre aliquid (to endure with a keen sense of pain; e.g., the separation from anybody, discidium): to feel anything very keenly, magnam molestiam trahere ex aliqua re; magna molestia affici ex aliqua re (to be disagreeably affected by anything); magnum capere or accipere dolorem ex aliqua re (to suffer great mental pain); graviter or gravissime dolere aliquid (to be violently afflicted by anything) acerbissime ferre aliquid (to endure with a bitter feeling): to feel the want of anything very severely, desiderio alicujus rei angi; magna molestia desiderare aliquid: to feel anything very painfully, anxie ferre aliquid: to feel an affection for anybody [Vid: To LOVE]: to feel an inclination, compassion, attachment, etc.; Vid: those substantives: to feel the beauties of anything; e.g., of a speech, orationis virtutes intelligere or introspicere: anything is more easily felt than described, aliquid facilius intelligi quam explanari potest.

MISCELLANEOUS PHRASES (especially with adjectives): to feel hungry, esurire (Vid: HUNFRY or HUNGER, s.: ☞ not sentire famem [Liv., 22, 13], which is to experience a famine); to feel thirsty, sitire. I feel offended at anything, offendit me aliquid: much offended, magnam injuriam mihi illatam esse puto. I feel dissatisfied with my condition, meae me fortunae poenitet: he shall feel that there are vigilant consuls in the city, sentiet, in hac urbe esse consules vigilantes: to let anybody feel one’s anger, bilem effundere or stomachum erumpere in aliquem (by words); aliquis iratum me sentit (by deed): to feel confidence in one’s self, sibi confidere [Vid. CONFIDENCE, or To CONFIDE]: to feel one’s weakness or insufficiency, minimum in se esse arbitrari: to feel ill, minus commoda valetudine uti: I feel rather better, mihi meliuscule est; vires recepi; he shall feel it, hoc non impune fecerit (i. e., he shall not have done it wtth impunity; also hoc non impunitum omittam): to feel for anybody, misereri alicujus; miseret me alicujus; tenet me misericordia alicujus; pari molestia affici (Sulp., ap. Cic.): to feel vexed at anything, aliqua ex re molestia affici: to feel pleasure at or from anything, voluptatem percipere ex re; pain, dolorem capere ex re; dolore affici, etc.: to feel angry, offendi; ira incendi: to feel very angry, iracundia efferri or exardescere; stomachari; indignari: to feel angry with anybody, alicui irasci, succensere; alicui esse inimicum (to be hostilely disposed toward him): to feel well, bona valetudine uti: to feel very well, optime valere or se habere: how do you feel? quomodo te habes? ut vales? I feel quite well, recte mihi est. I feel sorry, molestum est; doleo; poenitet me alicujus rei. I feel sorry for anybody; Vid: “to feel for anybody,” above: do not feel anxious about it, mitte curas: noli laborare de ea re: to feel dull, temporis or otii molestiam sentire; *tempus tarde labens moleste ferre; otio languescere: I feel glad that you are coming, gratus acceptusque mihi venis: I feel happy at anything, hoc placet; hoc mihi commodum est: you ought to feel happy or pleased at it, *est or habes, quod hac re gaudeas: I feel very weak, vires me deficiunt; infirmus sum viribus: to feel too weak, parum habere virium. To feel one’s way, abeo pedibus praetentans iter, or (if by the wall) abeo explorans manu parietes (both PROP.; after Tiberius, 2, 1, 78): baculo praetentare iter (of a blind man; Ov., Ib., 261).

To try, periclitari: tentare: experiri. SYN. in To TRY.