English → Latin
“spit” in Latin
verū̆spit, broach (especially for roasting); dart, javelin; paling or railing around an altar or tombvērustrue, real, actual (conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct); true, genuine (not counterfeispuōto spit, spewexspuōto spit out; to ejectcarōflesh, meat of an animal; pulp of a fruit; soft part of a precious stone
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
spit s.
veru, neuter, verum (Plaut.). To turn a spit, veru versare.
spit v.
To fasten on a spit, *(carnes) veru transfigere.
To eject from the mouth, spuere: exspuere. To spit blood, sanguinem vomere, ejicere, extussire; sanguinem per tussim exscreare or ejicere; tussis sanguinem extundit (Cels.); sanguinem per os reddere; sanguinem (ore) rejicere (Plin.): to stop a spitting of blood, exscreationes cruentas inhibere: to spit at or on, aliquid sputo aspergere or respergere; inspuere in aliquid: conspuere; consputare (general term, in good or bad sense. ☞ Aspuere, Plin., 28, 4, 7, and insputare, Plaut., Capt., 3, 4, 21 and 23, are unusual): to spit in anybody’s face, inspuere alicui in frontem or in alicujus faciem; os alicujus sputo respergere; also, consputare aliquem: to spit forth, out, or up, exscreare (in clearing the throat, or coughing); spuere, exspuere (to spit out); salivare (to emit as spittle, of the murex, Plin., 9, 36, 60); vomere, evomere; ejicere, rejicere (to vomit; evomere also, of volcanoes); per os reddere (to emit from the mouth): to spit forth flames, ex montis vertice ignes erumpunt; mons ignes evomit (†) or flammis emicat: (figuratively) to spit out venom and gall, acerbitatis virus evomere; against anybody, apud aliquem: to spit out death and destruction, caedem eructare sermonibus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for spit?
- The usual Latin words for “spit” are verū̆, vērus, spuō; also exspuō, carō. 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.