What is the Latin word for yoke?

The usual Latin words for “yoke” are iugum, servitūs, dēmō; also exuō, bōs, coniungō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“yoke” in Latin

iuguma yoke (for oxen or cattle) or collar (for a horse); a yoke, pair, team of draft oxen; a pair of horses; a chariot; a ju servitūsslavery, servitude; a body of slaves; a servitude (encumbrance on land)dēmōto remove, take away, or subtract; to withhold, take away, subtract from exuōto extract, take out, draw out, pull off; to free; to take off (clothes, shoes); doff bōshead of cattle (cow, bull, steer, or ox)coniungōto bind together, connect, join, unite, yoke together, juxtapose; to compose or form by uniting; to associate; to unite

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

yoke s.

jugum (PROP. and figuratively): jugum servitutis: jugum servile; servitus, -utis (figuratively). To put on or impose a yoke, jugum alicui imponere (PROP. and figuratively): to take off a yoke, jugum alicui solvere or demere (PROP.); aliquem eximere servitio (figuratively): to shake off a yoke, jugum excutere; jugum exuere; jugo se exuexe (PROP. and figuratively; exuere, with the idea of gradually shaking off); jugum servile a cervicibus dejicere; servitutem exuere (figuratively): to bring anybody under the yoke of slavery, alicui jugum servitutis injungere: to deliver anybody from a yoke, jugum servitutis a cervicibus alicujus depellere: to submit to a yoke, jugum accipere (all figuratively): to keep under the yoke of slavery, aliquem servitute oppressum tenere. Hence, by metonymy = a pair of oxen (yoked together), jugum (boum).

yoke v.

jugum imponere (e.g., bubus); jugo aliquem subdere et ad currum jungere (Plin., 8, 16, 20); (boves) jugo jungere (Cic.). To yoke together, (boves) conjungere.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for yoke?: The usual Latin words for “yoke” are iugum, servitūs, dēmō; also exuō, bōs, coniungō. 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.