English → Latin
“rape” in Latin
rapiōto snatch, grab, carry off, abduct, rape, steal; to snatch (oneself); take off, hurryraptiōan abduction; a carrying offvitiumflaw, defect, blemish, imperfection; vice; crime, wrongdoing, misdeed, sin, error, faultpraedaplunder, booty, pillage, spoils of war, property taken in war; prey, game taken in the hunt; gain, profitrāpumturnip
The English word rape itself goes back to Latin rāpum, through rāpa.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
rape
Violence, raptus, -ūs; raptio (abduction); oblatum per vim stuprum or vitium; vis illata pudicitiae.
Something snatched away, raptum; praeda.
A plant, rapum; *brassica napus (Linn.) wild rape, *sinapis arvensis (Linn.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for rape?
- The usual Latin words for “rape” are rapiō, raptiō, vitium; also praeda, rāpum. 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.