English → Latin
“lower” in Latin
minuōto make smaller, lessen, diminish, reduce, minimize; to attenuate, appease, suppress, repress, quell; to dismember, tearobscūrōto darken, obscure; to conceal, hide; to blind, becloud understandingobdūcōto lead, conduct, bring or draw towards, before, forward or against; to cover by drawing over; cover over, overlay, over
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
lower v.
TRANS.,
PROP. To make lower, let down, demittere aliquid. To lower the sails, navis armamenta demittere.
Figuratively, minuere, imminuere alicujus auctoritatem; elevare aliquem or alicujus auctoritatem. To lower one’s self, i. e., (a) to humble one’s self, let one’s self down, se demittere, se submittere; to anything, prolabi adaliquid; se projicere in aliquid (e.g., in muliebres fletus); descendere ad aliquid (e.g., ad gravissimas verborum contumelias). (b) to act unworthily of one’s self, minuere suam dignitatem; se abjicere, se abjicere et prosternere (to throw one’s self away): lowering, indecorus.
lower v.
INTRANS.,
PROP. To become dark, obscurari.
Figuratively. To look sullen, frontem contrahere or obducere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for lower?
- The usual Latin words for “lower” are minuō, obscūrō, obdūcō. 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.