English → Latin
“stumble” in Latin
lāborto slip, slide, glide; (of fluids) to flow gently; to fall, sink down; to slip, stumblehūcto this, to this (alone), to (only) this subject/matter; for this (alone), for this (one) thing; to/at (precisely) this verrōto scrape, sweep out or up, brush, scour, clean out; to sweep along, drive, impel; to sweep away, carry off, take away
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
stumble v.
PROP., pedem offendere: vestigio falli (to slip, make a false step): labi (to stumble so as to fall). To stumble against or upon, incurrere in aliquid: offendere ad aliquid (general term, to strike against); allidi ad aliquid (to be dashed against with violence): to stumble blindly upon anybody, caeco impetu incurrere in aliquem.
ImPROP., To stumble upon anything (= fall upon anything, meet with it accidentally), imprudentem incidere in aliquid (with adverb, huc, etc., Cic., of stumbling on a word he did not intend to use, Verro, 2, 4, 20); de improviso incidere in aliquem (Cic., of stumbling on a person).
stumble s.
offensio pedis: lapsus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for stumble?
- The usual Latin words for “stumble” are lābor, hūc, verrō. 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.