English → Latin
“wash” in Latin
lavōto wash, bathe; to wet, moistenabluōto wash off, wash away, cleanse, purify; to remove darknessēluōto wash out or away; to rinse; to eluteperluōto wash off; to bathesubluōto wash underneath; to flow at the foot of (of a river)corpusbody, person (person when used to mean "human body", e.g., "on one's person"); substance, material (physical, perceptiblpēsa place to tread one's foot: territory, ground, soil; a rope attached to a sail in order to set; tempo, pace, timelavātiōa washing, bathing (action); bath (apparatus or place)lōtiōwash, washingablūtiōwashing, cleansing, ablution
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
wash v.
Transitively, PROP., lavare (general term): abluere (with or without aqua; to cleanse by water): eluere (to wash out, especially vessels, stains out of anything): perluere (to wash carefully or thoroughly). To wash the body, the feet, corpus, pedes, abluere or perluere (aqua): to wash stains out of a garment, maculos vestis eluere or e veste abluere: to wash a pavement with water, pavimentum aqua perluere: to wash one’s hands, manus tergere, or sibi manus extergere (Plaut.): to wash the face, lavare vultum (Ov.). Proverbially. To wash a blackamoor white [Vid :, WHITE].
Figuratively, Said of the sea, locum alluere or subluere (from below). To be washed by the sea, mari adlui, contineri: mare adtingere: ad mare spectare.
To color, Vid:
Intransitively. To wash, or wash one’s self, lavari: lavare (seldom, if ever, used by Cic.); in a shower-bath, aqua perfundi (Vid: Auct. ad Her., 4, 9, 10); in a river, flumine corpus abluere; in cold water, frigida lavari.
wash s.
Washing, lavatio: lotio: lotura: ablutio (late; Vid: WASHING). To send anything to the wash, aliquid ad lavandum dare.
Cosmetic lotion, fucus (general term): medicamentum (e.g., fucati medicamenta candoris et ruboris): adjumentum ad pulchritudinem (Ter., general term).
Hogs’ wash, colluvies (Plin., 24, 19, 116).
A wash of color, color tenuis.
A marsh, Vid: WASH-BALL, gleba saponis (after Caes.): smegma (Plin., a composition for smoothing the skin).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for wash?
- The usual Latin words for “wash” are lavō, abluō, ēluō; also perluō, subluō, corpus. 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.