English → Latin
“storm” in Latin
tempestāsportion, point, or space of time; time, season, period; weather (good or bad); storm, tempest, galeprocellastorm, gale, gust, squall; tempest, hurricane; charge, onsetnimbusrainstorm, rain shower; rain cloud, thunder cloud, storm cloud; cloudimpetusan attack, an assault, a charge; a rapid motion; impulse, vehemence, ardor, passionoppugnātiōassault, attack; siegevolōto wish, to please; to want; to mean, to intendtonitruumthunderexcitōto call forth: to rouse, awaken, summon; to bring forth: to raise, build; to bring out: to encourage, revive, excite, storiorto rise, get up; to appear, arise, become visible; to be born, come to exist, originatenūbilōto be or become cloudy or overcast; to become clouded or opaque; to overshadow, to obscure, to darken, to adumbrate
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
storm s.
A tempest, tempestas (the proper word): procella (a squall or gust of wind): nimbus (rain): imber maximus (a heavy storm of rain; e.g., to arrive anywhere in a storm maximo imbri aliquo pervenire). A thunder-storm, tonitrua ac fulgura, nominative plur., (thunder and lightning): tempestas cum magno fragore tonitribusque (bad weather, with thunder and lightning): tonitrua, nominative plur. (thunder). A storm rises, tempestas venit, excitatur, oritur, concitur, nubilatur (i. e., clouds collect or gather): cooritur tempestas cum magno fragore tonitribusque (a storm arises with a crash and thunder): a storm rages, tempestas, procella, furit, saevit. To dread a storm, tonitrua (ac fulgura) expavescere: to wait till the storm shall have passed by, transitum tempestatis exspectare (Cic., Att., 2, 21, p. in., figuratively).
Figuratively, tempestas: procella (of troubles, etc.): impetus (of passion).
Assault on a fortified place, oppugnatio: impetus, vis. To take a town, etc., by storm, vi or impetu capere: vi or per vim expugnare: impetu facto scalis capere. To determine on a storm, exercitum ad urbem oppugnandam admovere: to order a storm, urbem vi adoriri or oppugnare; scalis muros aggredi. Vid: also, SIEGE.
storm v.
Intransitively, To rage, Vid:
Transitively, PROP., oppugnare: impetum facere in aliquid (urbem, castra): vi adoriri: aggredi (to approach for attack): vi expugnare (to take by storm).
Figuratively, oppugnare (of persons; with or without verbis): vexare: agitare: exagitare. To storm one with prayers, precibus fatigare: precibus expugnare (when the request is gained). To storm one with letters, questions, etc., obtundere litteris, rogitando.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for storm?
- The usual Latin words for “storm” are tempestās, procella, nimbus; also impetus, oppugnātiō, volō. 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.