English → Latin
“pump” in Latin
antliaa foot-operated pump for drawing water; the body part of an insect used to suck up plant juicescalceolussmall shoe; slippersoccŭlusa smallsentīnācŭluman instrument for bailing out the bilge-water of a ship
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
pump s.
A machine for drawing water, antlia (Vitr.). A ship’s pump, sentinaculum (Paullus Nol.).
A single-soled shoe, calceolus (Cic.); socculus (Sen.).
pump v.
antlia exhaurire. To pump out bilge-water, exhaurire sentinam (sentinare, Paullus Nol.): figuratively, to pump anything out of anybody, aliquid ex aliquo exquirere, percunctari, percunctando atque interrogando elicere; aliquid ex aliquo sciscitari or sciscitando elicere; aliquid a or ex aliquo expiscari: to pump anybody, (i. e., to try to learn his opinion), animum alicujus explorare voluntatem alicujus perscrutari; degustare aliquem (facete); pertentare alicujus animum; sciscitari quid cogitet.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for pump?
- The usual Latin words for “pump” are antlia, calceolus, soccŭlus; also sentīnācŭlum. 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.