English → Latin
“glance” in Latin
fulgurlightning, a flash of lightning; thunderbolt; brightness, splendoraspiciōto look at, towards, or upon; behold, gaze at or upon; view, see, examine, survey, inspect, investigate; regard, respectobtūtusan instance of seeing or looking at, a gazecoruscōto shake, brandish, wave, move about; to shake, vibrate, flit; to strike or flash lightningmicōto vibrate, quiver; to twinkle, glitter, flash, gleam, beam, shine, to be bright; to tremblestringōto draw tight together, to tie together; to pull or strip off, cut off, pluck off, clip off, prune; to unsheathpraestringōto bind fast; to tie up; to squeeze tight; to compress; to graze, glance offoculuseye; sight, vision; luminary of the sun and starslūstrōto purify by means of a propitiatory sacrifice; to circle, move in a circle around. (because the priest offering such saperlūstrōto go over, wander, traverse; to visit, see, search, explore; to consider, examine, observe, survey, look at
The English word glance itself goes back to Latin glaciēs, through *glacia.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
glance s.
Sudden shoot of splendor, fulgur. To emit glances, coruscare (Vid: Döderlein, Syn. 2, 81).
Darting of sight, aspectus: (oculorum) obtutus: to exchange stolen glances, furtim inter se aspicere: to throw a rapid glance on any subject, aliquid leviter transire, ac tantummodo perstringere; celeriter perstringere aliquid; breviter perstringere aliquid atque attingere (Cic.): aliquid quasi per transennam praeteriens strictim aspicio (Cic., De Or. 1, 35, 162). A single glance, unus conspectus or aspectus: to place anything so that it may be taken in at a single glance, aliquid in uno conspectu ponere; aliquid sub unura aspectum subjicere: at the first glance, primo aspectu; prima specie (according to its first appearance); uno aspectu et quasi praeteriens (IMPROP.; e.g., to pass judgement on any object of art, etc., at the first glance); ex prima statim fronte (e.g., dijudicare aliquid, Quint., with reference to the mere outside, as it were).
glance v.
Shoot rays of light, etc., coruscare: micare (to glance rapidly).
Dart the eyes at. To glance at anybody or anything, oculos in aliquid conjicere: oculos or os in aliquem conjicere: aspectum or oculos aliquo convertere: oculis videre, lustrare, perlustrare, or obire aliquid.
To touch superficially, stringere: praestringere. The bullet struck his side and glanced off, *glans latus ejus strinxit: the lightning struck his couch and glanced off, lecticam ejus fulgur praestrinxit.
To take a hasty view (of a book, etc.) [Vid: “to take a hasty GLANCE,” “to go through anything CURSORILY”].
To glance at anybody (= to allude to him indirectly, in the way of reproach), perstringere aliquem: oblique perstringere aliquem (indirectly): designare aliquem (oratione sua): spectare or respicere aliquid.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for glance?
- The usual Latin words for “glance” are fulgur, aspiciō, obtūtus; also coruscō, micō, stringō. 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.