English → Latin
“fry” in Latin
pisciculusdiminutive of piscis (“fish”); minnow; tiddlerparvussmall; little; puny; cheap; petty; trifling; ignorable; unimportantminuōto make smaller, lessen, diminish, reduce, minimize; to attenuate, appease, suppress, repress, quell; to dismember, tearfrīgeōto be cold or chilly; freeze; to be inactive, languid or at a standstill; flag, droop; to be coldly received or treated;adepsfat, lard, grease; corpulence, obesity; sapwoodfrīgōto roast, fry; to parch
The English word fry itself goes back to Latin frīgō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
fry s.
fetus piscium (their young): examen piscium or pisciculorum, with or without minutorum (Ter.), parvorum (Cic.; examen piscium, Plin., 31, 1, 1). A fry of little fishes, pisciculi parvi (Cic.). A dish of fried meat, *caro frixa, or *frixa, orum (if small pieces). Vid: To FRY.
fry v.
frigere, or (for more distinctness) frigere ex oleo (Plin.); *frigere ex butyro or adipe (as the case may be), or frigere in sartagine (in a frying-pan, Sidon. Ep., 41). Fried, frixus. Compare To ROAST.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for fry?
- The usual Latin words for “fry” are pisciculus, parvus, minuō; also frīgeō, adeps, frīgō. 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.