STING Copy link • STING 1. s. PROP., aculeus (of insects): aculeus; spina (of plants). Wound from a sting, ictus. Figuratively, aculeus: morsus. The stings of conscience, conscientiae stimulus; animi morsus; conscientiae angor et sollicitudo, cruciatus (Cic.). 2. v: pungere; compungere (general term for pricking or causing a pricking pain): ferire (to strike): mordere (of a biting pain; e.g., of a nettle): urere (of a burning, smarting sting; e.g., as that of a nettle, etc.). To be stung by a serpent, a serpente pungi or feriri (Plin.); by a nettle, urticae aculeis compungi: the stinging leaves of a nettle, urticae folia mordentia. ImPROP., mordere (e.g., valde me momorderunt epistolae tuae); conscientia mordere (Cic.); pungere or stimulare ac pungere.