English → Latin
“scold” in Latin
increpōto rattle, twang or make a similar noise; to cause to give forth a sound, sound, resound; to rebuke, chide, protest, comincrepitōto call or cry out; to chide or reproachobiūrgōto chide, scold, rebuke, reprimand; to chastise, punish; to dissuade or deter one from any thing, by means of reproofconvīciorto revile, reproach or tauntexagitōto set in motion; to drive out or away; to stir up, shake up, disturbdēstringōto strip off; to scrape (with a strigil); to draw outcorripiōto seize or snatch up, catch, lay violent hands on, take hold of, grasp quickly; to hurry up, hasten, set up quickly; toexprobrōto reproach, upbraid or reproverixōsusquarrelsome, pugnaciousiūrgiōsusquarrelsome
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
scold v.
(verbis) increpare: increpitare: objurgare (to reproach with a fault; opposed to laudare): conviciari (to make railing accusations): exagitare, destringere (to make sharp attacks on anybody): corripere (to blame with harsh words): exprobrare (alicui aliquid, to reproach anybody with something as dishonorable to him). To scold anybody on account of anything, vituperare aliquem de aliqua re; objurgare aliquem de or in aliqua re, or aliqua re only. To be scolded, objurgari, vituperari; in vituperationem incidere, cadere, venire, or adduci; vituperationem subire
scold s.
(mulier) rixosa, rixae cupida (jurgiosa, Gell.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for scold?
- The usual Latin words for “scold” are increpō, increpitō, obiūrgō; also convīcior, exagitō, dēstringō. 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.