English → Latin
“trap” in Latin
mūscipulamousetraplaqueusnoose; snare, gin, trap; chains, catenatendiculasnare, noosepedicashackle, fetter; snareīnsidiaeambush; artifice, plot, snaredispōnōto dispose, distribute or arrangecadōto fall, to fall out; to fall in battle, die, be slain, fall so as to be unable to rise; to be frustrated, fail, to be o
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
trap s.
PROP., muscipula (a mouse-trap): laqueus (a snare; a cord with a noose, to catchor throttle an animal; especially plur. IMPROP., trap laid for anybody): tendicula (only IMPROP., in Cic.): pedica (to catch an animal by the foot). To set or lay a trap, laqueum ponere; also with venandi causa (PROP.); laqueos ponere or disponere (for anybody, alicui; PROP. and figuratively): to fall into a trap, in laqueum (laqueos) cadere: to remain fast in a trap, in laqueis haerere (poetical: all three also, figuratively).
Figuratively, insidiae (ambush); laquei (snares: ☞ decipuli or decipulum = a trap, figuratively before and after the classical age, and nowhere in the proper sense): to lay, place, or set a trap, insidiari: for anyone, insidias alicui tendere, ponere, facere, or parare; dolum alicui nectere; laqueos alicui ponere or disponere: to allure anyone into a trap, in fraudem pellicere aliquem: to fall into a trap, in insidias incidere; in laqueos se induere; in laqueos cadere or incidere: I fall into the same trap, eadem capior via, qua alios captabam: to have fallen into a trap, laqueis irretitum teneri. [Vid: SNARE.]
Claptraps, dulces exclamatiunculae theatri causa productae (Vid: Quint., 11, 3, 179; claptraps as used by an orator). Claptraps for the gallery, verba ad summam caveam spectantia.
trap v.
To entrap, captare laqueis (PROP.): irretire laqueis (PROP. and figuratively). [Vid: ENTRAP.]
Adorn, Vid: TRAP-DOOR, *janua pensilis (in solo descensum praebens ad ea quae infra sunt).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for trap?
- The usual Latin words for “trap” are mūscipula, laqueus, tendicula; also pedica, īnsidiae, dispōnō. 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.