English → Latin
“sweat” in Latin
sūdorsweat; moisturegelidusice-cold, icy, frosty; chillingcieōto set in motion; act; to move, stir, shake; to summon, callvocōto call, summon, beckon (with one's voice); to name, designate; to bring or put (into a state or condition)ēliciōto draw or pull out or forth; to entice, elicit, coax; to conjure, summon (a spirit, god, etc.)diffluōto flow or run or shed away or in different directions; to dissolve, melt away, disappear; to be dissolved in, abandonedsūdōto sweat, perspireēvocōto summon, to call out, to call forth; to evoke; to lure or enticeaspergōto scatter or strew something or someone; to scatter or strew a person or thing with something; splash over; to spot, stcatusclever, intelligent, sagacious, clear-thinking; cunning, crafty, sly; shrill, sharp, clear-sounding
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
sweat s.
sudor: A cold sweat, sudor frigidus (Cels.), or gelidus (Verg.); frigidus sudor mihi occupat artus (Ov., Met., 5, 632): gelidus manabat corpore sudor (Verg., Aen., 3, 175): to put into a sweat, sudorem movere (Cels.); facere, ciere, vocare (Plin.); elicere (Cels.): in a sweat, sudore madens, diffluens, perfusus: to be in a sweat, sudare (Cic.); sudorem emittere: to be in a great sweat, multo sudore manare (Cic.), or diffluere (Phaedrus): to check or suppress sweat, sudorem coercere, inhibere, sistere, sedare, reprimere (Plin.): earned by the sweat of one’s brow, sudore partus; multo sudore ac labore partus.
sweat v.
Intransitively, sudare: sudorem emittere: sudore manare. Figuratively. The walls sweat, parietes madent (Plaut.), or asperguntur (after aspergo parietum, Cato, Plin.): to sweat blood, sudare sanguine or sanguinem.
Transitively, sudorem movere (Cels.), facere, ciere, evocare (Plin.), elicere (Cels.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for sweat?
- The usual Latin words for “sweat” are sūdor, gelidus, cieō; also vocō, ēliciō, diffluō. 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.