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“walk” in Latin
ambulātiōa walk, stroll; a place for walking; promenade, walk, porticospatiumspace, room, extent; distance between points; a square, walk, or promenadedeambulātiōwalk; walking, promenadinginambulātiōpacing up and down (especially of an orator on stage); shaking, swaying; a promenadeambulācrumA place for walking, a walk or promenade planted with trees (often near a house).xystuscovered portico or gallery (or one planted with trees)vīvōto live; to be alive, to survive; to reside inambulātiunculashort walk; small place for walkingeōto go, to fare, to move (oneself) (any kind of animate or inanimate motion: walk, ride, sail, fly, etc.); to advance, toabeōto depart, go away, go off, exit; to change one's nature; synonym of eō
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
walk s.
ambulatio: spatium (first as action; then as the place in which one walks up and down): deambulatio: inambulatio (as action; SYN. in WALK, v.): ambulacrum (place in which one walks for pleasure): xystus (explained by Vitr. to be hypaethra ambulatio, a walk with trees or clipped hedges on each side, and generally adorned with statues). A covered walk, tecta ambulatio: a little walk, ambulatiuncula :to take a walk, ambulationem conficere (in aliquo loco) [Vid: To WALK]. To go for a walk, ire or abire, ambulatum or deambulatum.
Mode of walk, gait, incessus; ingressus (opposed to to lying, standing, etc.). A quick, slow walk, incessus citus, tardus: an erect walk, incessus erectus; ingressus Cels.: an effeminate walk, incessus fractus. [Vid: GAIT.]
Path of life, vivendi or vitae via. To choose one’s walk in life, deligere quam viam vivendi ingressuri simus. Sometimes vitae conditio: gradus.
walk v.
ambulare (to walk leisurely up and down; opposed to stare, cubare, currere, salire): spitiari (to walk abroad, or in an open space; opposed to the confinement of a room or house): inambulare (to walk about within a circumscribed space): deambulare (backward and forward, for exercise, or until one is tired), in aliquo loco; obambulare alicui loco or ante locum; ☞ aliquem locum is poetical (to a fixed point, or in front of): gradi, ingredi, incedere: vadere (to advance, proceed, or, as synonym of gradi, etc., to walk on with firm steps, differs from the foregoing in this manner, that the gradiens makes uniform, man-like steps, by which he gives proof of his tranquillity of mind, and his grave or composed state of feeling; Vid: Cic., Tusc., 1, 116, 110; the incedens makes measured, deliberate steps, as if conscious of being seen and noticed: hence of the affected gait of a vain person, or one desiring applause, incedere is the proper word; Vid: Sen., N. Qu., 7, 31, 5: the vadens takes cheerful and quick steps, by which he declares his strength of mind and contempt of danger surrounding and awaiting him; Vid: Cic., Tusc., 1, 40, 97; Liv., 2, 10: the soldier in an onset in battle vadit; the vigorous, considerate man, graditur; the soldier in marching, the consul or prince when he makes a display, the vain man who would make a display, incedit). When people walk too fast, nimiae celeritates gressus cum fiunt (Cic.): to take walking exercise, ambulandi exercitatione uti (Cels.): to walk about, ambulare; deambulare: to walk along, incedere; ire (per viam): to walk through, perambulare: to be a walking dictionary; Vid: DICTIONARY.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for walk?
- The usual Latin words for “walk” are ambulātiō, spatium, deambulātiō; also inambulātiō, ambulācrum, xystus. 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.