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“shift” in Latin
dolorpain, ache, hurt; anguish, grief, sorrow; indignation, resentment, anger, fury, vengeancearsart, skill, craft, handicraft; trade, occupation, employment; cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagemratiōreason, reasoning, explanation, ground, motive, rationality, rationale, purpose; calculation, account, accounting, reckomodusmeasure; bound, limit, end; manner (of doing or being arranged), way (of doing or being arranged), methodremediumremedy, cure; medicine; aid, assistanceindusiuma woman's undergarment; a woman's shirt, a frock; a garment, perhaps a shirtartificiumart, craft, skill, talent, artifice, craftsmanship; profession, trade, an employmenttechnaA piece of craft or subtlety; wile, trick, artifice, cunning device
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
shift s.
Artifice, trick, dolus: ars (artificium, techna, comedy).
Expedient, ratio: modus: remedium. To put one to his shifts, multum negotii alicui facessere; negotium facere alicui; aliquem torquere. I am put to my last shifts for money, consilia rerum domesticarum sunt impedita (Cic.): to make the best shift one can, mola, tantum salsa litant, qui non habent thura (proverbially, Plaut.).
Chemise, indusium; or, by circumlocution, imum corporis velamentum (after Curt., 5, 1, 38).
shift v.
To change, Vid:
To use expedients, consilium a praesenti necessitate repetere (Curt., 6, 4, 10).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for shift?
- The usual Latin words for “shift” are dolor, ars, ratiō; also modus, remedium, indusium. 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.