English → Latin
“snatch” in Latin
capiōto take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm; to take on, adopt; to hold, to containcarptimby pieces, in parts, piecemeal, separately; at different places or points, on different sides; at different times, from rapiōto snatch, grab, carry off, abduct, rape, steal; to snatch (oneself); take off, hurrycaptōto strive to seize, catch or grasp at; to seek, aim atprehendōto lay hold of, seize, grasp, grab, snatch, take, catch; to detain someone in order to speak with them, accost, lay or cēripiōto rescue, deliver, free, save; to preempt, take by force; to snatch, snatch away, take away, tear out, pull out, pluck,adimōto take away, snatch away, carry off; steal; capture; to take away, deprive of; to remove (from a situation), save, rescauferōto take or snatch away; take by force, remove, take away violently, abduct, rob, steal, snatch, confiscate; to lay asideāvellōto tear off or away; to wrest; to pluck or rend offdīvellōto rend; tear apart, asunder, away or in pieces; remove; to estrange, alienate
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
snatch s.
Act of catching hastily, captura, or by the verb. By snatches (i. e., at intervals), per intervalla (Plin., 8, 42, 66); perhaps carptim; per intermissa spatia. Snatches of sunshine, *sol interdum nubibus interfulgens.
snatch v.
rapere. To snatch at, captare: prehendere: to snatch from, eripere; adimere; auferre (to take away unjustly); avellere: divellere (to tear away); extorquere (to wrest from the hands; PROP. and figuratively; e.g., alicui regnum); alicui eripere de (or e) manibus (PROP. and figuratively): to snatch from the mother’s arms, aliquem de amplexu matris avellere, or de complexu matris abripere: to snatch one from danger, from death, eripere ex periculo, a morte; from destruction, servare aliquem ab interitu.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for snatch?
- The usual Latin words for “snatch” are capiō, carptim, rapiō; also captō, prehendō, ēripiō. 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.