English → Latin
“snap” in Latin
fragora breaking, shattering; a crash; an uproarcrepitusa rattling, creaking, rustling, clattering; flatulencemordeōto bite (into); nibble, gnaw; to nip, sting; to eat, consume, devour, erodecapiōto take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm; to take on, adopt; to hold, to containfrangōto break, shatter; to break, shatter (a promise, a treaty, someone's ideas (dreams, projects), someone's spirit); to brediffringōto shatter (break into pieces)cōnfringōto break into pieces; to destroydissiliōto burst asunder, fly apart; To leap
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
snap s.
A sudden noise, fragor: crepitus.
A bite, morsus, -ūs.
A catch, captus, -ūs.
snap v.
Transitively, To break, frangere; diffringere; [Vid: Break].
Intransitively, frangi: confringi: dissilire (e.g., of the blade of a sword). Vid. BREAK, Intransitively.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for snap?
- The usual Latin words for “snap” are fragor, crepitus, mordeō; also capiō, frangō, diffringō. 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.