English → Latin
“glut” in Latin
vīnumwine; grapes; a grapevinecibusfood, fodder; nourishment, sustenance; mealexsatiōto satisfy, satiatesatietāssufficiency, abundance; satietymaximusbiggest, largest; loudest; unencumbered
The English word glut itself goes back to Latin gluttiō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
glut v.
To gorge, se ingurgitare, also, with vino, cibo, etc.: cibo vinoque satiari or exsatiari: obruere se (e.g., vino, Cic.): onerare se vino et epulis (Sall.): onerare ventrem (Sall., Or. de Rep. Ord., 1) ☞ glutire epulas, Juv.; from this comes the English verb.
To satiate, cloy [Vid: CLOY].
IMPROPR., To glut one’s self with anything, se satiare aliqua re (e.g., sanguine civium): exsatiari aliqua re (Liv.): to glut one’s eyes [Vid: “To FEAST one’s eyes”]: to glut one’s revenge, ultione se explere (Tac., Ann., 4, 25); odium or animum satiare (Cic.); poena alicujus satiari (Liv., 29, 9, fin.); alicujus supplicio (or poena, etc.) oculos animumque exsaturare (Cic.).
To overfill; to glut a market, *forum nuntiinarium rebus venalibus complere (complere = “to fill too full,” Liv., 41, 3, in.). The market, in which there had long been an extreme scarcity of corn, was now glutted, frumenti ex inopia gravi satias facta (Sall., Fragm. ap. Non., 172, 13; ☞ satias not in Cic. or Caes.).
glut s.
satietas (in Sall. once satias): vis maxima (a great quantity): maxima or nimia copia. There is a glut of corn, frumenti satias facta est (Sall., Fr. ap. Non. 172, 13). There is a glut of anything, aliquid redundat: *refertissimum est forum aliqua re. Vid: SATIETY.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for glut?
- The usual Latin words for “glut” are vīnum, cibus, exsatiō; also satietās, maximus. 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.