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“fetch” in Latin

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

fetch v.
petere: afferre: apportare (general terms for carrying or bringing anything to a place): adducere (to lead to any place): producere (to bring forth; e.g., testes): arcessere: accire (to go and fetch; to summon anybody or have anybody summoned to a place; with this difference, that with arcessere the person sent for actually makes his appearance, whereas accire leaves his coming uncertain; hence arcessere ad aliquem, but not accire ad aliquem): advehere: subvehere: apportare (if by waggon or on ship-board). To fetch anybody or to have anybody fetched, aliquem arcessi or arcessiri jubere: to fetch a physician, medicum arcessere; medicum ad aegrotum adducere: to fetch water, aquam e puteo trahere (from a well for domestic use); aquam petere: aquatum ire (to fetch supplies of it for an army): to fetch wood, lignari: materiari: to fetch breath, spirare; spiritum ducere: to fetch a deep sigh, gemitum de immo pectore ducere (†): fetch him (i. e., bring him here), illum huc arcesse (†); huc coram adducas illum: to fetch evidence from etc., argumenta arcessere a, etc.; argumenta promere ex, etc. (e.g., from passages, ex locis): to fetch anything from far, or too far, aliquid longe petere or repetere; aliquid altius or paullo altius repetere: in order that the instances or examples may not appear too far fetched, ne longius abeam: you need not fetch your proofs so far, non longe abieris (Vid: Interpp. of Cic., Roscius, Am., 16, 47): a sentiment that is far-fetched, arcessitum dictum: to fetch a good price, in pretio esse: to fetch no price at all, pretium non habere.
To FETCH AWAY, asportare (whether by carrying, or in a wagon, ship, etc.): avehere (either persons or things).
To FETCH DOWN, (α) PROP., deferre: depromere (of inanimate objects); deducere (of animate objects). (β) ImPROP., = to humiliate, alicujus spiritus reprimere; frangere aliquem or alicujus audaciam; comprimere alicujus audaciam. (The words are found in this connection and order.) frangere aliquem et comminuere.
To FETCH IN, intro ferre or afferre: to fetch a person in, aliquem intro adducere: fetch him in to me, illum huc intro adducas.
To FETCH OFF, amovere: demovere: removere: auferre: avehere: abducere: deportare [SYN. in To REMOVE].
To FETCH OUT, efferre (by carrying): educere (by leading or drawing): elicere ex, etc. (by alluring inducements): depromere (to fetch or fetch out from; pecuniam ex area, ex aerario).
To FETCH OVER, traducere.
To fetch about: the wind has fetched about to the south, ventus se vertit in Africam.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for fetch?
The usual Latin words for “fetch” are petō, afferō, apportō; also addūcō, prōdūcō, arcessō. 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.