English → Latin
“pluck” in Latin
vellōto pluck out (feathers, etc.); to depilate; to pull or tear down; to demolishvellicōto pluck, twitch, pinch, nip; to suck (of bees)ēvellōto tear, pull or pluck out; to erase or eradicateconvellōto shatter, batter, convulse; to overthrowauferōto take or snatch away; take by force, remove, take away violently, abduct, rob, steal, snatch, confiscate; to lay asidelānawool; spinning woolcapillusa single hair; hair (plurally); a head of hair: locks, tressesextathe bowels or entrails of animals, especially the heart, lungs, and livervirtūsmanhood, manliness, virility; courage, valor, resoluteness, gallantry; virtue, goodness
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
pluck v.
To pull sharply, vellere: vellicare. To pluck up by the roots, radicitus vellere; evellere, convellere: to pluck a bird; i. e., pull its feathers out, avem vellere (e.g., pullos anserum, Col.); *avi pennas evellere or auferre.
Pluck out, vellere (e.g., lanam, capillos: pullos anserum, Col.; pilos): evellere (pluck out or up; e.g., linguam Marco Catoni: spinas agio). To pluck out anybody’s eyes, oculos alicui eripere or eruere.
Pluck off = gather, carpere: decerpere (general terms): legere (with selection; fruits and flowers): sublegere (to pluck off some; i. e., to thin a fruit-tree): destringere alicui aliquid (berries and leaves): avellere (pluck off; e.g., poma ex arboribus, Plin.): detrabere alicui aliquid (take away from; fruits): Flowers plucked, flores carpti or demessi.
To pluck up courage, animum or (of several) animos capere or colligere: to pluck up courage again, animum or se recipere: to cause anybody to pluck up courage, animum alicui facere, or afferre, or addere (of things): to bid anybody pluck up his courage, alicujus animum verbis confirmare; firmare, or confirmare aliquem or alicujus animum.
pluck s.
The heart, liver, and lights drawn from an animal, exta, -orum, nominative plur.
Figuratively. In low language = courage, animus fortis; virtus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for pluck?
- The usual Latin words for “pluck” are vellō, vellicō, ēvellō; also convellō, auferō, lāna. 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.