English → Latin
“advance” in Latin
tA letter of the Latin alphabet, written in the Latin script.prōmoveōto move forward, cause to advance, push onward, propel, advance; to extend, enlarge, increase; to put out, dislocate, ditollōto raise, lift up, elevate; to remove, take away, steal, rob; to destroy, eliminate, annulattollōto lift, lift up; raise, raise up; elevate or sustain; rearfoveōto warm, keep warm; to nurture, cherish, foster; to foment, batheōrnōto furnish, equip, outfit, prepare; to adorn, ornament, decorate; to honor, commend, praiseexōrnōto equip, furnish, supply, provide; to adorn, embellishisthis or that man, woman or thing; he, she, it, they (previously introduced); this or that [man, woman or thing] (as a noprōcēdōto proceed, advance; to show oneself, appear, become visible; to go towards, go to meetprōgrediorto come, go, or march forth, forward or on; advance, proceed; to make progress, advance, develop, proceed, go on; advanc
The English word advance itself goes back to Latin ab, through *abanteāre.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
advance v.
t.,
move forward, PROP., promovere (a camp, troops, chessmen, etc.).
Promote to honor, aliquem augere, tollere, attollere (to raise a man to posts of honor in a state): fovere (to show favor to by one’s arts): ornare, exornare (to distinguish): gratia et auctoritate sua subtentare (support by one’s influence). (The words are found in this connection and order), augere atque ornare: augere et adjuvare; fovere ac tollere; sustiuere ac fovere. To advance to anything, producere ad dignitatem (to raise to a post of honor): promovere ad, or in munus, or ad locum (to advance to an office: time of empire. Not promovere alone): muneri praeficere (set over anything): munere ornare. To advance anybody to a higher rank or office, aliquem promovere ad (in) ampliorem gradum, ad ampliora officia.
Forward: to advance anybody’s interests, servire alicujus commodis; rebus or rationibus alicujus consulere or prospicere. The interests or welfare of a state, saluti reipublicae consulere; rempublicam juvare, tueri; reipublicae salutem suscipere. A study, studiis favere, studia concelebrare (by pursuing it eagerly: of several persons, Cic., Invent., 1, 3, 4).
Enlarge, promovere (e.g., imperium, moenia, etc.). To advance anybody’s fortune, alicujus fortunam ampliticare.
Adorn, Vid:
Accelerate, accelerare aliquid (to hasten anything): maturare aliquid, or with infinitive (to endeavor to bring that to pass which should be performed now): repraesentare aliquid (to do without delay, even before the time): praecipitare aliquid (to hurry it on too much).
Propose, bring forward, etc. To advance an opinion, sententiam dicere (to give or declare an opinion); tueri (to maintain it); aperire (to open or disclose it), etc.
Pay in advance. Vid. ADVANCE, s.
advance v.
i.,
to come forward, procedere (general term: also of a player): progredi (also of a general): prodire (to come forth; hence, also, to project).
Of an army, Vid: MARCH.
Make progress, procedere, progredi, procedere et progredi, proficere: in anything, in re; processus (never in the Golden Age profectum) facere in re. To advance in virtue, procedere et progredi in virtute; progressionem facere ad virtutem.
advance s.
progressus, progressio (PROP. and IMPROP.): processus (IMPROP.).
Money paid or received in advance, *pecunia in antecessum data or accepta, respectively. To pay anybody in advance, pecuniam alicui in antecessum dare.
A step forward, as it were, to meet a lover and fix his attention: perhaps the nearest notion is blandimentum, blanditiae. To make advances to, petere: prps., per blandimenta adgredi (used by Tac. of a mother toward her son): pellicere (ad sese) aliquem, or alicujus animum.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for advance?
- The usual Latin words for “advance” are t, prōmoveō, tollō; also attollō, foveō, ōrnō. 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.