English → Latin
“plunder” in Latin
rapīnarobbery, plundering, pillage, rapine; plunder, bootyrapiōto snatch, grab, carry off, abduct, rape, steal; to snatch (oneself); take off, hurrypraedaplunder, booty, pillage, spoils of war, property taken in war; prey, game taken in the hunt; gain, profitfūrtuma theft, robbery; thieving, the act of robbing; a stolen thinglatrōciniummilitary service for pay; robbery, banditry, highway robbery, piracy, brigandage; pillage, plundering; an act of banditrdīripiōto tear apart; to tear to pieces; to lay waste, plunder an enemy’s territory or possessions; to loot; steal; robcompīlōto snatch together and carry off; plunder, pillage, rob, stealexpīlōto plunder, despoil, pillagespoliōto strip, deprive or rob of covering or clothing, uncover, bare, unclothe; to strip, deprive or rob of arms or equipmentdēspoliōto rob, plunder or despoil
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
plunder s.
Robbery, raptus alicujus rei; rapina (the act of robbing; in the sense of raptum it is poetical): raptum (property that has been seized by robbers): praeda (game or booty): furtum (theft; also, stolen property): latrocinium (street-robbery).
Booty, praeda; raptum. To live by plunder, vivere rapto.
plunder v.
diripere (to lay waste, destroy, etc. ☞ In good prose only as a military term): compilare, expilare (to take away by stealth): spoliare, despoliare, exspoliare (general terms, to deprive of): nudare (to strip): depeculari (to steal, embezzle): depopulari (to depopulate, lay waste). To plunder thoroughly, exbaurire, exinanire, nudum atque inanem reddere (to empty a house, etc.): evertere et extergere (i. e., to sweep and brush out, facete, Cic., Verr., 2, 21, 52). (The words are found in this connection and order.) nudare ac spoliare; spoliare nudareque; nudare et exinanire or exhaurire; spoliare et depeculari: to plunder the treasury, aerarium expilare, depeculari; (thoroughly) aerarium exinanire, exhaurire: to plunder a country, (also) praedam ex agris rapere or agere (agere especially of cattle).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for plunder?
- The usual Latin words for “plunder” are rapīna, rapiō, praeda; also fūrtum, latrōcinium, dīripiō. 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.