English → Latin
“wet” in Latin
ūmidusmoist, humid, damp, dank, wet; formerly liquid, frozen; watery, weakūmectusmoist, damp, wetsiccusdry; sober; thirstyumerusthe humerus bone; shoulder (especially of a human); the shoulders (when speaking of a burden)reddōto give back, return, restore; to give up, hand over, deliver, render, provide, assign; to surrender, relinquish, delivecōnspergōto sprinkle, strew or spattermadefaciōto wet, moisten, dampen; to soak, steep; to intoxicatepermadefaciōto wet through; to drench thoroughlypluviarain; a shower (of something)imberrain; a storm; a stormcloud
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
wet adj.
humidus (that which is moist, or that which brings moisture; opposed to aridus and siccus): humectus (old Latin and post-classical): ☞ madidus and madens, uvidus and udus = moist. To be wet, humidum esse; humere (poetical and post-Augustan): to grow or become wet, humescere.
If = rainy, Vid.
wet v.
humidum facere or reddere (☞ humectare only in poetry and post-Augustan, prose): conspergere (to sprinkle; opposed to rigare = “to water”). To wet through, soak with wet, madefacere; madidum reddere; (entirely) totum madidum reddere; permadefacere: to be wetted through, madefieri (e.g., pluvia, imbre): madidum reddi (aqua, sudore, etc.): to become completely wetted through, permadescere: to be wet through, madere; madidum or madefactum esse (e.g., imbre).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for wet?
- The usual Latin words for “wet” are ūmidus, ūmectus, siccus; also umerus, reddō, cōnspergō. 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.