“account” in Latin

ratio (account, generally; and also = reckoning: often rationes when the account is a complex one): nomen (the account of an individual who is in a man’s books). A little account, ratiuncula. An account of receipts and expenditure, ratio accepti et expensi. To have a settlement of accounts with anybody, putare rationem cum aliquo; calculum ponere cum aliquo; alicui rationem reddere (of the debtor); aliquem vocare ad calculos (of the creditor). To examine an account, rationem cognoacere; rationes inspicere. To go through a man’s account, rationes alicujus excutere, dispungere. To state and balance an account, rationes conficere et consolidare. To cast up an account, rationes or calculos subducere; rationem inire et subducere. The account agrees, or is right, ratio constat, convenit, apparet. His account of receipts and disbursements comes right, ratio accepti et expensi par est. The account comes right to a farthing, ratio ad nummum convenit. To have an account with anybody (e.g., as a partner, creditor, etc.), ratione cum aliquo conjunctum esse. He has a heavy account against me, grandem pecuniam alicui debeo. I have a heavy account against him, magna ratio mihi cum eo contracta est. To settle an account, rationem expedire, solvere, exsolvere. To demand the settlement of an account, nomen exigere. To draw up or make out an account, rationem conficere. To bring to account, imputare (dative of person against whom); alicui expensum ferre (to set a sum down in one’s accounts as paid to anybody); rationibus inferre; in rationem inducere; or inferre, inducere only; in codicem accepti et expensi referre; to set it down in one’s accounts as given to anybody, in rationibus alicui datum inducere aliquid. Set it down to my account; i. e., against me, mihi expensum feras. To adjust or settle one’s family accounts, rationes familiares componere. To return or give in one’s accounts, rationes referre or ad aerarium referre (of a magistrate who has received public money). On my own account, meo nomine (PROP., then IMPROP., at my own risk).

Reckoning, explanation: to call a man to account, rationem ab aliquo reposcere. To give an account, rationem reddere. The day of account, *dies rationis reddendae.

Advantage, quaestus, lucrum: to find his account in anything, quaestum facere in aliqua re; satis lucri facere ex aliqua re.

Regard, respect to, ratio: to take account of; i. e., consider, regard, alicujus rei rationem ducere or habere. To take no account of, negligere aliquem or aliquid, nihil curare aliquid. To make no account but that, non or nihil dubitare quin, etc.

Narration, narratio; relatio (e.g., in chronicles, etc., post-Augustan), rei gestae expositio. To give an account, narrare alicui aliquid or de aliqua re: exponere, explicare (to give a full account): enarrare (to give a full and orderly account). Also pluribus verbis exponere; rem ordine enarrare; cuncta, ut sunt acta, exponere; enarrare alicui rem, quo pacto se habeat. There are two accounts of that, de aliqua re duplex memoria est, or (for reports of recent events) duplex fama est. There are different accounts (in books, etc.), variatur memoria actae rei.

Estimation, value: to be of small or of no account, nullius ponderis esse; ponderis nihil habere (of things): tenui or nulla auctoritate esse; in nullo esse numero (of persons). To be of account, aliquo loco et numero esse apud aliquem; multum auctoritate valere or posse apud aliquem.

On account, in antecessum (i. e., in advance, with dare, solvere, accipere. Sen., post-Augustan). ON ACCOUNT OF, ob (for; for the sake of; referring to an object to be attained or benefited; e.g., to “an advantage to be attained,” “the commonwealth to be benefited,” merit to be rewarded, etc.): propter (denotes a proximate cause or motive: it PROP. denotes vicinity): per (denotes dependence on something): de (with respect to): causa (from the cause; for the sake of: denotes a thing or person viewed as the cause of an action): gratia (with genitive, out of favor; for the sake of): ergo (with genitive in consideration of a fact stated): pro (for; in proportion to, or agreement with; in return for): prae (denotes the preventive cause: hence only in negative sentences): for some advantage, ob aliquid emolumentum: to take money for judging a cause, ob rem judicandam: she could not do it on account of her age, per aetatem: on account of the season of the year, propter anni tempus; propter hanc causam, quod; ob eam causam, quia; certis de causis; omnium salutis causa; aetatis atque honoris gratiea. To be heard with difficulty on account of (= for) the noise, prae strepitu vix audiri. To be praised on account of something, alicujus rei nomine laudari; ab aliqua re laudari, commendari. To march negligently on account of (= in consequence of) his success, negligentius ab re bene gesta ire (Liv.).

esteem, ponere with in and the ablative: to account anything a vice, ponere aliquid in vitiis: ducere (with dative of what one esteems it; ducere sibi aliquid laudi): numerare aliquid in alicujus rei loco (e.g., to account a thing a kindness, in benelicii loco). To account anything a gain, deputare aliquid esse in lucro (Ter., Phormio, 2, 1, 16).