English → Latin
“rub” in Latin
fricōto rub; to chafecōnfricōto rub vigorouslyterōto rub or triturate; to wear away or wear out, consume; to treadatterōto wear away, rub away; to grind; to chafedēfricōto rub off or downērādōto scrape away, pare; to abolish, eradicate, remove; to erase, deleteindūcōto lead, bring or conduct in or into somewhere; to bring forward, exhibit, represent; to bring into or before a courtfricātiōrubbing; friction
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
rub v.
fricare (to clean or smooth by rubbing, also to wear): confricare (to wear away): terere, atterere, usu deterere (to wear). To rub in or into, infricare: to rub one’s self, fricari: to rub round, circumfricare: to rub the eyes (so as to bring tears), oculos terere: to rub down, defricare. To rub out, eradere (to scratch out): inducere (to erase by rubbing the inverted style over). To rub up or over [Vid: SETOUCH]. To rub anything (metallic) bright, detersum aliquid nitidare, atque rubigine liberare (Col., 12, 3).
rub s.
Act of rubbing, tritus: attritus (so as to wear): fricatio: fricatus (of the body).
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Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for rub?
- The usual Latin words for “rub” are fricō, cōnfricō, terō; also atterō, dēfricō, ērādō. 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.