English → Latin
“shiver” in Latin
frangōto break, shatter; to break, shatter (a promise, a treaty, someone's ideas (dreams, projects), someone's spirit); to brecōnfringōto break into pieces; to destroyhorreōto stand erect, stand on end; to tremble, shiver; to dread, be afraid ofhorrēscōto begin to bristle up; one's hair rises on end; to become terrified; to begin to shiver, shake, tremble, shuddertremōto tremble, shake, shudder atcontremīscōto tremble all over; to waver; to be afraid offragmentuma piece (broken off), remnant, fragmentfragmena fracture; piece of a rock; fragments; ruins, wreck; chipsfrustuma piece, bit; crumb, morsel, scrap of foodhorrorbristling (standing on end); shaking, shivering, chill; dread, terror, horror
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
shiver v.
Transitively, frangere: confringere. [Vid: BREAK.]
Intransitively, horrere: horrescere (to shudder with cold, etc.): tremere, contremiscere (to tremble). To shiver all over, totum tremere horrereque; omnibus artibus contremiscere.
shiver s.
A broken piece, fragmentum: fragmen (poetical): frustum (a little bit).
shiver s.
A shuddering, horror: cold shivers, febrium frigus; frigus et febris (after aestus et febris, Cic., Cat: 1, 13, 31); from the context, frigus only; e.g., to be attacked with cold shivers, corpus frigore tentatur (Hor., Sat., 1, 1, 80). To have cold shivers, frigore et febri jactari (after Cic., loc. cit.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for shiver?
- The usual Latin words for “shiver” are frangō, cōnfringō, horreō; also horrēscō, tremō, contremīscō. 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.