English → Latin
“gush” in Latin
mānōto give out, shed, pour forth; to flow, run, trickle, drop, distil, run; to leak; to flow, diffuse or extend oneself, spaltusold, ancient, long gone; high-born, lofty, noble; high-minded, magnanimous, greatexsiliōto spring, bound, leap or start out, up or forthērumpōto break out (of), to burst out (of); to sally forth, rush out; to break out, burst forthprōrumpōto break or burst forth or outprōsiliōto leap, jump, rush or spring forth or up; to burst or break forth, start out, start up; to hastenēmicōto appear suddenly; to spring out, spring forth, to break forthprofundusdeep, profound; intense, extreme, profound; immoderate; boundless, vast; bottomless
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
gush v.
exundare aliqua re: profluere ex aliqua re (general term): scaturire: manare: alte or in altum emicare: exsilire (to spring up): erumpere: prorumpere (of water, tears, blood, etc., to flow or rush forth with some degree of violence): ex edito desilire (e.g., from a height): prosilire or emicare (of blood): profundi: se profundere (of tears, etc.): *cum fremitu delabi (to rush down with a noise). Tears gush from the eyes, in lacrimas effundi.
gush s.
[Vid: STREAM][Vid: STREAM]: with a gush of tears (e.g., to implore anybody), multis cum lacrimis: a gush of tears. Vid: “FLOOD of tears.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for gush?
- The usual Latin words for “gush” are mānō, altus, exsiliō; also ērumpō, prōrumpō, prōsiliō. 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.