English → Latin
“smack” in Latin
saporA taste, flavor, savor.; A sense of taste.; A smell, scent, odor.crepitusa rattling, creaking, rustling, clattering; flatulencefragora breaking, shattering; a crash; an uproarbāsiumkiss (especially of the hand); kiss of the lips (especially in Catullus and Martial)scaphaa light boat; skiffōsculuma kiss; a little mouth; a small orificePetrōniusof or pertaining to the gens Petroniacrepōto rattle, rustle, clatter; to crack, creak; to prattle, talk noisily
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
smack s.
Taste, savor, sapor [Vid: TASTE].
A loud sound, crepitus: fragor: sonitus fragilis (Lucr., 6, 111).
A loud kiss, basium. They gave each other a hearty smack, osculo (osculis) collisa labra crepitabant (Petronius).
A small sailing-vessel, scapha.
smack v.
Intransitively, To make a cracking noise, fragorem dare, crepare: sonitum fragilem dare (after Lucr.).
To taste, Vid:
Transitively, To slap, alicui alapam ducere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for smack?
- The usual Latin words for “smack” are sapor, crepitus, fragor; also bāsium, scapha, ōsculum. 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.