English → Latin
“scamper” in Latin
āvolōto fly off or away; flee awayfugiōto flee, fly, take flight, escape, depart, run, run away, recede; to speed, hasten, pass quickly; to avoid, shun, be avecapessōto seize, snatch, take, catch at or lay hold of eagerly; to strive for or after, make for, betake oneself to, endeavor t
The English word scamper itself goes back to Latin capitulāre, through *excappare.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
scamper
abripere se: avolare (to hasten away): proripere se ex loco (to get quickly out of a place): fugere: fugae se mandare; in fugam se conjicere fugam capere or capessere (to flee).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for scamper?
- The usual Latin words for “scamper” are āvolō, fugiō, capessō. 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.