English → Latin
“amount” in Latin
efficiōto make out or work out; effect, execute, complete, accomplish, make, form, compose; to cause to occur, to bring about, expleōto fill up, occupy completely; to appease, satisfy, placate the thirst, satiate the hunger; to supply, repair, compensatcōnficiōto prepare, accomplish, complete, execute; settle, close a bargain; traverse; to produce, cause, bring about, effect, seVelleiusof or pertaining to the gens Velleia.egō̆I; first person singular personal pronoun, nominative caseredeōto go, move, turn or come back; turn around, return, revert, reappear, recur; to home; to be brought or reduced to; arrisummatop, summit, highest point or place; the principal or main thing; sum, summary, totalcaputthe head (of humans and animals); head; top; summit; point; end; extremity (beginning or end); origin; source; spring; hsolidusdense, solid, not hollow; whole, entire, thorough, full; firmsummŭlaa small sum
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
amount v.
efficere, also esse: explere. What dues the whole amount to? quae summa est? quantum est? To amount to a great sum, longam summam efficere or conficere. The whole number amounted to more than 80, 000 men, omnis numerus explebat amplius octoginta millia (Velleius). To what does this amount? id autem quantulum est? (the amount being smalt). To amount to any thing (= to have it for its result), eo or hue redire (Ter., etc.): hunc adeo exitum habere (have no other result than this: of actions, , etc.). The evil at worst can only amount to a divorce, incommoditas hue omnis redit, si eveniat discessio (Ter., Andr., 3, 3, 35). Anything amounts but to this, that, (In such a sentence as is given in Johnson: “the errors of aged men amount but to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.”) etc., perhaps aliquid non ferme longius progreditur, quam ut, etc. It amounts to the same thing, idem est: par est (Cic., pro Muren., 10, 41). It amounts to the same thing, whether - or, nihil interest, utrum - an. The whole argument of his letter amounts to this, summa epistolae haec est. What he said amounted to this, exitus fuit orationis (Caes., B.G., 4, 6, Herzog).
amount s.
summa. The whole amount, solidum: an insignificant amount, minuta summa or summula.
Abstract of a whole, summa, caput. Vid: SUM.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for amount?
- The usual Latin words for “amount” are efficiō, expleō, cōnficiō; also Velleius, egō̆, redeō. 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.