English → Latin
“strip” in Latin
laciniaan edge or flap of a garment; dewlap; a small piece of something (especially land)resegmena piece cut off, a paringchartapapyrus, paper; a piece of papyrus or paper; a piece of writing, especially a letter, poem, or charterpōnōto place; to put; to lay; to ordain; to appoint; to make (something); to set up; to pitch (camp)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
strip s.
lacinia (e.g., of cloth, of land): scidula (chartae): resegmen (chartae).
strip v.
PROP., detrahere rem alicui: re aliquem nudare: exuere aliquem veste (general term, to take off one’s clothes): detrahere alicui vestem (to draw off clothes): nudare aliquem (to strip anybody; e.g., in order to scourge him): aliquem veste or vestibus spoliare (to deprive or rob of clothing). To strip one’s self, exuere vestem; ponere, deponere vestem; corpus nudare: to strip a tree (of leaves), nudare arborem foliis; detrahere folia arboris; stringere arborem or frondes.
Figuratively, aliquem spoliare (to deprive); aliquem nudare (to deprive of all his property). To strip entirely, omnibus rebus spoliare; omnibus bonis exuere; evertere fortunis omnibus; ad vivam cutem tondere (Comicē, to shave to the very blood, Plaut.); aliquem emungere argento; aliquem perfabricare (to cheat, defraud of, comedy): to strip (a narrative or fiction) of its ornaments, *ornatum detrahere, exuere: stripped of his hypocritical disguises, evolutus integumentis dissimulationis.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for strip?
- The usual Latin words for “strip” are lacinia, resegmen, charta; 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.