English → Latin
“mew” in Latin
caveahollow, cavity; cage, den, enclosure, stall, coop, beehive, birdcage; the seats in a theater, amphitheater, or auditoriuclaustruma bar, band, bolt; gate, door, bulwark; enclosure (confined space)larusa ravenous seabird; perhaps a gull or mewexuōto extract, take out, draw out, pull off; to free; to take off (clothes, shoes); doffquerorto complain, lament, bewail; to be indignantgemōto sigh, groan; to creak; to bemoan, lamentfēliōto snarl like a panther; to meow like a catinclūdōto shut up or in, confine, enclose, imprison, keep in; to obstruct, restrain, hinder; to limit, control
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
mew s.
An enclosure, cavea; claustrum.
Cry of a cat, *vox felis.
A kind of sea-fowl, larus (Linn.).
mew v.
To shed (feathers), plumas ponere or exuere.
To cry as a cat, *queri, *gemere (felire; Auct. Carm., Philom., 50; of the panther). To mew like a cat, vocem felis imitari.
Mew up, includere, concludere in aliquem locum or in aliquo loco (Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for mew?
- The usual Latin words for “mew” are cavea, claustrum, larus; also exuō, queror, gemō. 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.