English → Latin
“mow” in Latin
mētacone, pyramid; turning point, winning post (pillar at each end of the Circus route); boundary limitacervusmass, heap, pile, stack, cluster; treasure; consonant cluster (pronounceable group of consonants that occur together)secōto cut, cut off; to cleave, divide; to operate, amputate, perform surgerydēmetōto reap, cut or mow; to cut down; to pick (fruit)succīdōto cut off, through, or away from below, cut or mow down, fellcaedōto cut, hew, fell; to strike, beat; to kill, to murderdēsecōto sever, cut off; to cut, reap or mow (a crop)metōto reap, harvest; to cut, crop or snip off; to cut through, sever
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
mow s.
meta; acervus (e.g., foeni; ☞ not foenile, which is = a hay-loft, Col.): to make (hay) mows, foenum in metas exstruere (Col., 2, 18, 2).
mow v.
(foenum) secare, demetere, succidere, caedere; (prata) desecare; absolutely, metere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for mow?
- The usual Latin words for “mow” are mēta, acervus, secō; also dēmetō, succīdō, caedō. 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.