English → Latin
“advertise” in Latin
dēferōto bear, carry or bring down or away; convey; take, remove; to bring to market, sell; to give to someone, grant, confer dēclārōto declare or announce; to indicate, reveal or testify; to show or provepraedicōto proclaim, declare publicly; to announce, make known; to praise, commend, extolaperiōto uncover, make or lay bare, reveal, clear; to make visible, discover, show, reveal, lay open; to unclose, open, break patefaciōto open, throw open; to disclose, uncover, reveal, bring to lightlitteraletter (of the alphabet); handwriting; letter, epistle
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
advertise
inform, nunciare alicui aliquid (announce, by letter or by a messenger): per nuncium declarare alicui aliquid (by a messenger): certiorem facere aliquem alicujus rei or de aliqua re (give him certain information: by letter, per litteras): docere aliquem aliquid or de re (to give him information): deferre, perferre aliquid ad aliquem (to convey information to anybody): significare alicui aliquid (to give anybody to understand; especially under a promise of secrecy: to give a hint of anything: by letter, litteris or per litteras.)
To give public notice of, declarare (to announce publicly that something is going to happen; e.g., gladiatorial shows, munera: also ostendere): praedicare (to proclam by a herald, κηρύττειν, ἀνακηρύττειν): pronunciare (παραγγέλλειν publish, cause to be proclaimed by a herald; e.g., orders, names of the conquerors in games, etc.): aperire, patefacere (to spread the knowledge of).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for advertise?
- The usual Latin words for “advertise” are dēferō, dēclārō, praedicō; also aperiō, patefaciō, littera. 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.