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“snare” in Latin

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

snare
PROP., Anything set to catch an animal, a gin, a noose, laqueus (a sling, etc.). To lay a snare, laqueum ponere, also with “venandi causa”: to fall or get into a snare, in laqueum or laqueos cadere: to have fallen into a snare, in laqueis haerere († all three, also, IMPROP.):
ImPROP., insidiae (trap): laquei (snares, traps). ☞ Decipula or decipulum = “gin, trap,” never occur in the proper meaning, and they are either ante- or post-classical. To lay a snare, insidiari: for anybody, insidias alicui tendere, ponere; insidiis petere aliquem; dolum alicui nectere (to deceive, to defraud): to entice anybody into a snare, in fraudem pellicere aliquem: to get or fall into a snare, in insidias incidere: I am falling into the snare which I have laid for others, eadem capior via qua alios captabam: to have fallen into the snare, laqueis irretitum teneri: to catch as it were, in a snare, velut indagine capere.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for snare?
The usual Latin words for “snare” are laqueus, īnsidiae, īnsidior; also pōnō. 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.