English → Latin
“trick” in Latin
arsart, skill, craft, handicraft; trade, occupation, employment; cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagemdolorpain, ache, hurt; anguish, grief, sorrow; indignation, resentment, anger, fury, vengeanceartificiumart, craft, skill, talent, artifice, craftsmanship; profession, trade, an employmenttechnaA piece of craft or subtlety; wile, trick, artifice, cunning deviceprōcūdōto fashion by hammering, to make by hammering; to hammer out, forge; to form, producepraestīgiadeception, illusion, trick; act of legerdemain, sleight of hand, magic trickfābuladiscourse, narrative; a fable, tale, story; a playcaptuscaptured, having been captured, seized, having been seized, taken, having been taken; taken on, having been taken on; tafrauscheating, deceit, deception, fraud, guile, stratagem, trick, treachery, wiles; delusion, error; injury, hurt, harmēlūdōto finish play, cease to sport; to deceive, trick, fool, cheat, frustrate, delude; to escape, avoid, evade, dodge, shun,
The English word trick itself goes back to Latin trīcor, through *triccāre.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
trick s.
ars: dolus: artificium: techna (comedy). To play tricks, dolos nectere, procudere (comedy): a juggling trick, praestigiae (deception, delusion): circulatoriae praestigiae (of a juggler; Tert., Apol., 23): fabula (as it were, a comedy, which one plays for the purpose of deceiving; e.g., Cornicinius ad suam veterem fabulam rediit, Cic., Att., 4, 2, 4); at cards, *paginae (lusoriae) captae, or captandae.
trick v.
To deceive, fraude or dolo capere: eludere: fucum facere alicui: fraudare: fraudem or tallaciam alicui facere. To trick anybody out of anything, aliquem fraudare or defraudare aliqua re; out of money, aliquem circumducere or circumvertere argento: aliquem emungere argento: perfabricare aliquem (all comedy).
To adorn, exornare. Vid: ADORN.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for trick?
- The usual Latin words for “trick” are ars, dolor, artificium; also techna, prōcūdō, praestīgia. 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.