English → Latin
“stroke” in Latin
ictusa beating time, a beat; a beat of the pulse; an attack, shotplāgaplague, misfortune; stroke, blow, cut, strike; wound, gash, injurypellōto push, drive, hurl, impel, propel; expel, banish, eject, thrust out; to strike, set in motion; to rout, put to flight,damnumdamage, injury; loss, disadvantage; fine, mulct, penaltylīneaA linen thread.līmesa limit set between two estates or fields, border, boundary; a fortified boundary line, a boundary wall; a boundary, borfacinusdeed, action, doing; adventure, venture, undertaking; crime, wickedness, evil deeddolorpain, ache, hurt; anguish, grief, sorrow; indignation, resentment, anger, fury, vengeancemāchinacontrivance; war machine, military engine, siege engine; scaffoldrēmusoar
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
stroke s.
A blow, ictus, -ūs: plaga: pulsus (remorum). A violent stroke, ictus validus: a stroke of lightning, fulmen.
Figuratively, A loss, damnum.
Line with a pen, etc., linea (lineamentum, Petronius): limes. To make a stroke, lineam ducere: strokes of letters, litterarum ductus: by a single stroke of his pen, una litterarum significatione (Cic., Man., 3, 7, of a single letter producing a great effect).
Act of one body on another. A finishing stroke, confectio: to give a finishing stroke to anything, finire aliquid; finem alicujus rei, or, more rarely, alicui rei facere (to make an end): ad finem or ad exitum adducere aliquid (to bring to an end): conficere, transigere aliquid (to accomplish).
A masterly effort, facinus: dolus; machina (a stroke of crafty policy).
stroke v.
mulcere: demulcere (e.g., alicui caput): palpare: palpari (alicui or aliquem).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for stroke?
- The usual Latin words for “stroke” are ictus, plāga, pellō; also damnum, līnea, līmes. 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.