English → Latin
“huff” in Latin
excandēscōto kindle; to catch fire; to become angry, enraged with passion; (figuratively) to grow hot or burn with anger, rage, orīnflōto inflate; to blow into; to play a wind instrument; to puff up, swell; to be proud, haughtysufflōto blow, puff up, inflateincrepōto rattle, twang or make a similar noise; to cause to give forth a sound, sound, resound; to rebuke, chide, protest, commaledīcōto slander, speak ill of; to curseintumēscōto become swollen; to risesuperbiapride, haughtiness, arrogance, snobbishness, insolence, lawlessness, wantonness; conceit, vanity; rudeness, discourtesy
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
huff s.
A sudd en swell of anger or arrogance, (quasi) tumor animi. To be upon the huff (l’Estrange), est in tumore animus (Cic.); ira efferri: excandescere; iracundia exardescere.
huff v.
TRANS.,
To puff up, inflare: sufflare (lo puff up; PROP. and figuratively): inflare alicujus animum (e.g. ad superbiam).
To scold insolently, increpare: maledictis or probris increpare.
INTRANS., To swell, intumescere (e.g., superbiā).
To huff at (= despise, reject; e.g., a doctrine; South), contumaciter spernere (e.g., imperia): aliquid totum ejicere (to reject; e.g., rationem Cynicorum): aliquid alicui displicet, non probatur, improbatur.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for huff?
- The usual Latin words for “huff” are excandēscō, īnflō, sufflō; also increpō, maledīcō, intumēscō. 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.