English → Latin
“juice” in Latin
sūcusjuice; sap; moisturevīrusvenom (a poisonous substance secreted by animals or plants); a plant- or animal-sourced substance with medicinal or magisaniēsichor, pus, saniesmellīgōA honeylike juice, sucked by bees from plants; propolis, bee-glue, hive dross.ostreaoyster, mussel
The English word juice itself goes back to Latin iūs.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
juice
succus (al. sucus: general term for juice; e.g., of meat; of the juices that form the sap of trees, etc.): virus (the glutinous and biting juice of certain plants; of snails, etc.; the poisonous juice of serpents): sanies (litterally, bloody matter: then, from their resemblance to this in substance or color, the juice of the spider, the purple-fish, olives, etc.): mellīgo (the juice of flowers; also the yet unripe juice of berries, grapes, etc.). The juice of the grape, succi uvae (general term); melligo uvae (of the unripe grape). The juice of the purple-fish, ostreum (ὄστρεον), or, pure Latin, sanies purpurea: the nutritive juices secreted from food, secretus a reliquo cibo succus is, quo alimur: to draw up the juices of the earth, succum ex terra trahere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for juice?
- The usual Latin words for “juice” are sūcus, vīrus, saniēs; also mellīgō, ostrea. 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.