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“fell” in Latin
sternōto spread, stretch out, spread out; to calm, still, moderate; to cover, spread with, scatter with, bestrew with, besprinprōsternōto strew in front of; to prostrate, knock down, throw to the ground; to overthrow or subvertafflīgōto strike, beat, dash (against); cast or throw down, prostrate; to afflict, damage, injure, crush, break or ruin; to humdēturbōto upset or topple, throw or beat down; to dislodge; to deprive ofēvertōto turn upside down, overturn, reverse; to upset, disturb, agitate, roil; to throw down, cause to fallsubvertōto overturn, upset, overthrow; to destroy, subvertcaedōto cut, hew, fell; to strike, beat; to kill, to murderexcidōto fall out, from or down, tumble to the ground, collapse, break down, drop; to fall out or from involuntarily, slip outsuccīdōto cut off, through, or away from below, cut or mow down, fellarbora tree; something made from a tree, of wood; the polypus (imagined to have arms like the branches of a tree)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
fell v.
To throw or knock to the ground, sternere: prosternere: affligere: dejicere: deturbare: evertere: subvertere. [SYN. in To THROW DOWN.]
To hew or cut down, caedere (general term, to cut down, arbores, silvas, etc.; also an enemy): excidere (arborem; opposed to evellere): succidere (saw through at the bottom, arbores): dolabris sternere (Curt.). To fell timber, materiam caedere: materiari (Caes., B.G., 7, 73).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for fell?
- The usual Latin words for “fell” are sternō, prōsternō, afflīgō; also dēturbō, ēvertō, subvertō. 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.