English → Latin
“acknowledgment” in Latin
agnitiōrecognition, acknowledgement, admission, acceptance; knowing, perceivingcōnfessiōa confession, acknowledgment; creed or avowal of one's faith; confession (disclosure of one's sins to a priest in order exprimōto squeeze out; to press (out); to express; to imitate or copyconcēdōto depart, retire or withdraw, come away, come, go away; to disappear or vanish; to relinquish, concede, relent, subsideefficiōto make out or work out; effect, execute, complete, accomplish, make, form, compose; to cause to occur, to bring about,
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
acknowledgment
agnitio (act of recognizing): confessio (act of confessing). To bring a man to the acknowledgment of anything, aliquem adducere ad confessionem alicujus rei (by kind means): alicui exprimere confessionem alicujus rei or exprimere ut aliquis confiteatur aliquid (by force). To force a man to an acknowledgment, exprimere or extorquere ut fateatur; cogere ut contiteatur or concedat. The acknowledgment of error, *error agnitus. To bring a man to an acknowledgment of his sinn, *facere, efficere, ut agnoscat, intelligat se peccavisse.
To send a man a small acknowledgment, munusculum alicui concinnare (if “small present” will do).
Acknowledgment, the payment of a debt, apocha. To give an acknowledgment, apocham dare.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for acknowledgment?
- The usual Latin words for “acknowledgment” are agnitiō, cōnfessiō, exprimō; also concēdō, efficiō. 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.