English → Latin
“fill” in Latin
compleōto fill up, fill full, fill out; make up, complete; to cover, overwhelm; to occupy, set up a garrison (military)impleōto fill up or with, fill fully; cover, fulfill. (+ genitive, ablative, or accusative case); to satisfy, satiate; to makeexpleōto fill up, occupy completely; to appease, satisfy, placate the thirst, satiate the hunger; to supply, repair, compensatoppleōto fill completely, fill up; cover; to fill, occupyrepleōto fill again, refill, replenish; to make up for, complete, restore, supply; to fill, satisfy, satiate, satevāsculuma small vessel or container; a small beehive; a seed-capsule or seed-vesselpāginaa pageant (usu. in a cycle of mystery plays, esp. as performed by guild of craftsmen)legiōA legion.illethat, yon; thosepateraA broad, flat dish, saucer, bowl, or vessel, used especially for libations during a religious rite or sacrifice
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
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TRANS., complere (to fill completely; e.g. fossas sarmentis et virgultis; vascula; paginam; and figuratively, omnia terrore; aliquem gaudio, bona spe, etc.; also to fill with the full complement; e.g., legiones): implere (to fill by something put into it; e.g., ollam, pateram, gremium, etc.; also libros, volumina, and se sanguine, etc.): explere (to fill out, so that no vacuum is left inside, quasi rimas explere, mundum bonis omnibus, etc.): opplere (to fill anything, of which it also covers the surface, nives omnia; Graeciam haec opinio opplevit): replere (to fill again; e.g., exhaustas domos; also to fill full, campos strage hostium). All these, anything with anything, aliquid aliqua re, except that Livy has replere alicujus rei, and Cic. ollam denariorum implere, and career mercatorum completus: farcire (to stuff; e.g., a cushion, a pillow, etc., with roses): ref’ercire (to cram full): cumulare (to heap), aliquid aliqua re. To be filled full of meat and drink, cibo et potione completum esse; epulis refertum esse: to fill one’s self full with food, se ingurgitare cibis; of wine, vino se onerare: vino obrui or se obruere: to fill anything; i. e., to pour liquid into a vessel, plene infundere (to fill to the brim): to fill a place with people, locum complere hominibus (a prison, carcerem); locum frequentare (to cause any place to be filled with people): to fill a page, paginam complere: Chrysippus has filled whole volumes on the subject, de quibus volumina impleta sunt a Chrysippo: what is this ravishing sound that fills my ears? qui complet aures meas tam dulcis sonus? (Cic., Somn. Scip., 5): to fill the earth with the glory of one’s name, implere orbem terrarum nominis sui gloria.
To occupy (an office, etc.), locum obtinere: to fill a priesthood, sacerdotio praeditum esse.
To FILL OUT. To fill one’s self out, complere se (cibo, etc.).
To FILL UP, explere: implere (quite full to the brim): to fill up a ditch, fossam complere (e.g., sarmentis et virgultis), or implere (e.g., aggere, with rubbish); the gaps with stones, intervalla saxis effarcire.
fill
INTRANS., compleri: impleri: expleri: oppleri: repleri. [SYN. in To FILL.] A ship fills with water, alveus navis haurit aquas (†); (omnibus) compagibus aquam accipere (to be filling with water through the seams).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for fill?
- The usual Latin words for “fill” are compleō, impleō, expleō; also oppleō, repleō, vāsculum. 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.