English → Latin
“flit” in Latin
migrōto migrate, depart to another place, change residence, move; to go away, change; to carry off, transportdomushouse, home (the building where a person lives); any dwelling-place or abode (of people or animals); the place of one's volitōto fly about; to hasten; to hovercircumvolōto fly around; to run aroundfluitōto float; to flow; to wave, undulateflū̆xusa flowing, flow, flux; emission (of semen)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
flit
*volitare ultro citroque per auras (Lucr., 4, 36): from context, volitare only: volitare in aliquo loco: volitare passim per aliquem locum (of persons, Cic., Cat., 2, 3, 5; Rosc., Am., 46, 135). To flit about any place, circumvolare or circumvolitare locum (to fly round a place): fluitare (of things only; Vid: Ov., Met., 11, 470): flitting, fluxus: fluxus et mobilis (e.g., res humanae, Sall.): fluxus atque fragilis (Sall.): instabilis.
Remove, migrate, migrare or demigrare in alium locum (to move to a different place), or in alia loca (to different places): domo or e domo emigrare (to leave one’s abode for another).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for flit?
- The usual Latin words for “flit” are migrō, domus, volitō; also circumvolō, fluitō, flū̆xus. 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.