English → Latin
“parry” in Latin
ictusa beating time, a beat; a beat of the pulse; an attack, shotcaveōto take precautions, beware, take care; to guard against, attend to a thing for a person, provide; to guard against, to vītōto avoid, evade; to shundēclīnōto bend, deviate, turn aside/away, deflect; to inflect, decline; to avoidēvītōto shun, avoideffugiōto flee from, escape; to avoid, evade
The English word parry itself goes back to Latin parō, through parāta.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
parry
To put by a thrust, ictum or petitionem vitare, cavere, cavere et propulsare; also (without mention of the thrust or weapon) cavere: vitare (with the sword): ☞ ictum declinare: petitionem declinatione et corpore effugere, or simply ictum effugere (= to avoid by a motion of the body). To parry cleverly or successfully, recte cavere: to parry and thrust, cavere et repetere.
Figuratively, To avoid, declinare, evitare, effugere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for parry?
- The usual Latin words for “parry” are ictus, caveō, vītō; also dēclīnō, ēvītō, effugiō. 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.