What is the Latin word for flight?

The usual Latin words for “flight” are fuga, grex, agmen; also cōnferō, fugō, vertō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“flight” in Latin

fugaflight, fleeing, escape; avoidance; exile grexa group of smaller animals: a flock (of birds, sheep, etc.), a pack (of dogs, wolves, etc.), a swarm (of insects), etc.;agmena train of something; multitude, host, crowd, flock; an army, column, troop, band; line or rank of troops; stream, cours cōnferōto bring or collect together, gather; unite, join, connect; to bring or place together or near, set in opposition, oppos fugōto chase away, put to flight; to drive into exile; to dismiss, to avert vertōto turn, turn oneself, direct one's way, to turn about, turn around, revolve; to turn upside down, overturn, overthrow, convertōto turn upside-down; to invert; to turn over (soil etc); to turn back or recoil

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

flight

fuga. To take to flight, se dare, conferre or conjicere in fugam; fugam capere; sese fugae mandare: fugam petere [Vid: To FLY]: to put to flight, fugare; in fugam dare, vertere, convertere, conjicere (the two last, with the notion of eagerness and swiftness); in fugam impellere (Cic., Rabir. perd., 8, 82): profligare (so that he cannot again rally): to be in flight, in fuga esse: to endeavor to escape by flight, fuga (sibi) salutem petere: to escape by flight, ex fuga evadere; fuga se eripere: to cut off anybody’s flight, fugam intercludere; to hinder or stop it, fugam reprimere: to aid the flight of anybody with money, fugam alicujus pecunia sublevare. Flight from anything, fuga alicujus rei: vitatio, devitatio (the avoiding it).

A flight of the fancy, *volucer animi motus: to venture on a flight of imagination, omne immensum peragrare mente animoque (Lucr., 1, 74).

Flight (of birds), avium volatus.

Flock (of birds), grex: agmen (e.g., corvorum, Verg.).

Of stairs. To live up three flight of stairs, tribus scalis habitare (Martisalis, 1, 118, 7).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for flight?: The usual Latin words for “flight” are fuga, grex, agmen; also cōnferō, fugō, vertō. 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.