English → Latin
“shuffle” in Latin
dēverticulumA byroad, bypath, side-way; tributary.; A deviation, digression.; A place for travellers to put up; an inn, lodging.tergiversorto seek an evasion, to tergiversatefrauscheating, deceit, deception, fraud, guile, stratagem, trick, treachery, wiles; delusion, error; injury, hurt, harmpermisceōto mix or mingle together thoroughly, commingle, intermingle, combine; to mix together, unite, join, combine; to throw idīrēctēstraight, not curved; moving straight forward, in straight line; direct, absolutedīrectoadv., directly, in a straight line
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
shuffle
To agitate tumultuously, so that one thing is thrown into the place of another [Vid: To CONFUSE]. To shuffle cards, perhaps paginas miscere or permiscere.
To evade fair questions, etc., deverticula or deverticula flexionesque quaerere (but in Cic. this is proper): tergiversari (to twist and turn one’s self; not to face anything fairly; to shirk anything). Without shuffling, directe or directo (in a straightforward manner): he answered the question in a shuffling manner, alio responsionem suam derivavit.
To play mean tricks, fabricam fingere ad aliquem: tragulam in aliquem conjicere: technis aliquem fallere (all comedy): fraude: aliquem tentare. There is some shuffling in the matter, aliquid doli subest: there is no shuffling in it, nihil doli subest.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for shuffle?
- The usual Latin words for “shuffle” are dēverticulum, tergiversor, fraus; also permisceō, dīrēctē, dīrecto. 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.