English → Latin
“address” in Latin
habilitāsability, aptitude, fitnesshabeōto have, hold; to own, have (possessions); to possess, have (qualities)arsart, skill, craft, handicraft; trade, occupation, employment; cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagemfacultāsability to do any thing easily, skill, capacity, power; means, resources; opportunity, chancehabilisable to have/possess/maintain; having sufficient ability or power to do or to conduct; skillful; suitable, apt, fit, prodexteritāsdexterity, aptness, readiness; prosperity, felicitypraescrīptiōpreface, introduction, commencement; pretext, excuse, pretence; precept, order, rule, lawalloquiuma speaking to, addressing, an address (exhortation encouragement, consolation, etc.)allocūtiōThe act of speaking to or accosting; address.; The act of consoling or comforting; consolation, comfort; exhortation.
The English word address itself goes back to Latin regō, through dīrēctus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
address
Dexterity, habilitas (dexterity of body): habitus (the dexterity gained by the practice of an art or virtue): ars (dexterity in an art): usus alicujus rei (experience and consequent skill): facultas (the power of doing anything, capacity): ingenium ad aliquid aptum or habile (mental aptitude): ingenii dexteritas, or dexteritas only: to anything, ad aliquid (readiness and cleverness in conduct toward others; worldly wisdom, Liv., 28, 18, and 37, 7, end. In the sense of “dexterity” generally, it is not Latin).
Of a letter; direction, praescriptio.
Designation by name and place of abode. What is your address? ubi habitas?
To pay one’s addresses to, aliquem petere: alicujus amore teneri, captum esse; aliquem in amore habere (to be in love with: cause for effect).
Speech, alloquium (address of a persuasive, consolatory, or warning kind. A softaddress, blandum or lene alloquium, Liv.): allocutio (speaking to): appellatio (accosting a man quietly: e.g., to request anything): compellatio (direct address in a speech; rhetorical term): oratio (formal, studied speech): concio (address to a popular or miliary assembly, harangue): sermo (speech of an unpremeditated, conversational kind).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for address?
- The usual Latin words for “address” are habilitās, habeō, ars; also facultās, habilis, dexteritās. 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.