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“fetch” in Latin
petōto ask, beg, request, look for, inquire, petition, entreat; to make for (somewhere); to seek, aim at, desireafferōto carry forth; to bring forth; conduct; to bring, bear, convey or carry information, report, announce, inform, publish,apportōto bring, carry, conduct or convey to; import; to bring an arrival, arrive, come toaddūcōto lead, bring, draw or convey to or to oneself; to prompt, induce, cause; to persuade, moveprōdūcōto lead or bring forth, forward or out; to conduct to; bring before, present; to draw or stretch out, lengthen, extendarcessōto send for, call, invite, summon, fetch; to summon or arraign someone before a court of justice; accuse, inform againstacciōto send for, invite, summon, call for, fetch; to summon death, to kill oneself, commit suicideadvehōto bring to; to importsubvehōto carry or convey upwards, or upriver
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.