English → Latin
“appease” in Latin
plācōto appease; to placate, pacify, assuage, soothe, calm, quiet; to reconcileexpiōto make amends or atonement for a crime or a criminal; atone for, expiate, purge by sacrifice; repair, appease; to punismītigōto make soft, ripe, or tender; to mitigate, make mild, tame, pacify
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
appease
placare (general term to pacify; e.g., numen divinum scelere vio latum precibus; iram deorum; hostes reipublicae): expiare (to appease by expiatory rites: numen; manes): mitigare, linire (to soothe, to soften down; ut eum tibi ordinem aut reconcilies aut mitiges, Cic.). To appease any body who is angry with another. animum alicujus in aliquem offensiorem recolligere: to appease any body toward another, placare aliquem alicui or in aliquem; aliquem cum aliquo, or aliquem or alicujus animum alicui reconciliare; aliquemcum aliquo reconciliare.
To appease one’s hunger or thirst, famem or sitim explere or depellere (depulsare more poetical): sitim reprimere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for appease?
- The usual Latin words for “appease” are plācō, expiō, mītigō. 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.