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“fetter” in Latin
equushorse; steed, chargercompēsshackles (for the feet), fetterspedicashackle, fetter; snareinimīcitiaEnmity, hostility, ill will; aversion, dislike, hatredvinculumAny instrument whereby anything is bound or tied up; bond, band, fetter, chain, cord, tie, link; a bond, obligation, bin
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
fetter v.
compedes indere alicui: pedica coartare (Apul.): pedica capere (equum, Liv.). To be fettered, compedibus astrictum esse: ☞ compedire prae- and post-classical, Varr., ap. Non., Cat.; servi compediti.
IMPROPR., compede tenere aliquem; pedicis alicujus rei alligare aliquem (Apul.). Vid: To HAMPER.
fetter s.
compes (shackle, for the lower part of the thigh, to prevent escape, mostly made of wood, but also of iron; tropically like vinculum = means of coercion; Vid: Cic., Tusc., 1, 31, 75, vincula and compedes corporis, i. e., the body holding the soul in fetters; and IMPROP.; e.g., grata compede juvenem tenere): pedica (an iron for fettering the feet; e.g., of a slave, an ox, a horse on the pasture, etc.). To put anybody in fetters, alicui compedes indere: the mind when freed from the fetters of the body, animus corpore solutus. If fetter = chain, Vid: FEUD,
Feod [Vid: FEE].
Deadly quarrel, etc., inimicitiae, etc. Vid: QUARREL.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for fetter?
- The usual Latin words for “fetter” are equus, compēs, pedica; also inimīcitia, vinculum. 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.