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“up” in Latin

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

up
To be up (= not a-bed), vigilare (to be awake): e lecto surrexisse (to have left one’s bed).
To walk up and down, ire et redire; inambulare. To bring nothing up, nihil emoliri (of a person who coughs; Cels.). To live up three pair of stairs, tribus scalis habitare: to rise up against anybody, exsurgere contra or adversum aliquem (Tac.); cooriri in aliquem; imperium alicujus detrectare: to come up to (= as high as) anything, aequare aliquid (e.g., summa equorum pectora; of water; also tenus esse, after ablative of thing; e.g., alibi umbilico tenus aqua erat; alibi genua vix superavit, Liv., 26, 45, quite at the end): up the stairs, contra scalas: up the stream, adverso flumine: up the mountain or hill, in adversum montem; adversus collem or clivum: to come up with [Vid: To OVERTAKE]. Up the country, in interiora regionis: to get up, surgere, with or without (e) lectulo or lecto; surgere cubitu: to rise up to speak, surgere ad dicendum [Vid: RISE]: from my youth up, a puero: a parvo: a parvulo: ab adolescentia: ab adolescentulo: ab ineunte aetate; a prima aetate or adolescentia: ab initio aetatis: a primis temporibus aetatis. To hold up, (a) = lift up, Vid: : (b) keep from falling, sustinere: sustentare (PROP. and IMPROP.); fulcire (to prop up; also figuratively): stabilire (to make firm, establish; e.g., a state; the authority of a law). To climb up [vid CLIMB]. To run up [Vid: RUN (UP)]. To keep up with; Vid: KEEP.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for up?
The usual Latin words for “up” are vigilō, inambulō. 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.