English → Latin
“accuse” in Latin
accūsōto blame, reproach, make a complaint against, find fault with; to indict, accuse, arraign, chargeincūsōto find fault with, blame, accuseīnsimulōto accuse, blame, chargeīnferōto carry, bring, put, place, or throw in, into, to, or upon somewhere or something; insert; to bring forward, introduce,addūcōto lead, bring, draw or convey to or to oneself; to prompt, induce, cause; to persuade, movecrīminorto accuse, denounce, charge; to allege, slander, defame; to reprimand, reproach
The English word accuse itself goes back to Latin ad, through accūsō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
accuse
accusare (to accuse in a criminal court): incusare (to accuse, but not in a court of justice): insimulare, in alicujus rei insimulationem vocare (to cause anybody to be suspected of a crime, whether justly or unjutly): arguere crimine or de crimine (ἐλέγχειν, to charge, and make the charge good by proofs, whether in a court of justice or not): culpam in aliquem conferre, in culpa ponere aliquem, alicui culpam attribuere (lay the blame of anything on anybody: culpare is poetical and post-Augustan): crimen alicui afferre or inferre; in crimen vocare or adducere; crimen in aliquem conferre; crimine compellare (to tax or charge a man with, whether justly or not): criminari (to accuse in a bad sense; e.g. for the purpose of blackening a man’s character): condemnare aliquem alicujus rei (PROP. to condemn: but sometimes the antecedens of condemnation, to accuse justly; e.g., alliquem iniquitatis, Herzog, B.G., 7, 19): reum facere or agere (bring before a court as a defendant): calumuniari (to accuse calumniously, sophistically, etc.): aliquid alicui objicere or objectare (to cast anything in a man’s teeth; reproach him with). To accuse falsely, falso crimine or falsis criminationibus insimulare; falso conferre aliquid in aliquem; crimen or aliquid criminis alicui or in aliquem contingere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for accuse?
- The usual Latin words for “accuse” are accūsō, incūsō, īnsimulō; also īnferō, addūcō, crīminor. 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.