English → Latin
“sketch” in Latin
adumbrātiōsketch, outline, silhouette; semblance, pretensedēlīnĕātĭoa sketchspeciēsseeing, view, look; spectacle, sight; external appearance, looks; general outline or shapefigūrōto form, fashion, shape
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
sketch s.
adumbratio (whether with pencil, etc., or in words): forma alicujus rei adumbrata (Cic.). Kraft gives delineatio; brevis descriptio. Ichnographia in Vitr., only. To give a mere sketch of anything, formam ac speciem alicujus rei adumbrare: to give a mere sketch of history, tantummodo summas attingere (opposed to res explicare; Vid: Brem., Nep., Pelop., 1, 1).
sketch v.
formam alicujus rei lineis describere: speciem or imaginem alicujus rei lineis deformare: imaginem alicujus rei delineare (PROP.): adumbrare aliquid (PROP., of a sketch partly shaded; Vid: Freund, sub voc.; also IMPROP., of graving tools or words): partes alicujus rei disponere (to arrange the separate component parts): delineare aliquid (to draw an outline of it): brevirer paucis describere aliquid: to merely sketch anything [Vid: “to give a mere sketch”]: to sketch figures, etc., in outline, extrema corporum facere or pingere et desinentis picturae modum includere (of mere outlines, Plin., 35, 10, 36): to sketch out, delineare, designare (to draw in outline; designare, also, figuratively, verbis); primis velut lineis designare (in a speech, Quint., 4, 2, 120); describere (to describe in outline); adumbrare (to represent with a due mixture of light and shade; figuratively, to represent in due manner, dicendo): to sketch out a work, *rationem operis describere: to sketch out a speech, primas velut lineas orationis ducere; orationis partes disponere: to sketch out a plan of anything, rationem alicujus rei describere or designare (e.g., belli).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for sketch?
- The usual Latin words for “sketch” are adumbrātiō, dēlīnĕātĭo, speciēs; also figūrō. 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.