English → Latin
“appoint” in Latin
statuōto put up (something); to stand (something) in an upright position; to establish, determine, fix (the form or character cōnstituōto place, put, locate, lay; to set up, establish, constitute, found; to build, erect, constructdēstinōto bind, fasten, secure, fix, make fast; to establish, determine, resolve, consider, predict, destine; to intend, devotedēsignōto mark; to trace out; to outline, describedīcōto say, talk, speak, utter, mention; to declare, state; to tellēligōto choose, to pluck or root out, extract; to pick out, choose, electfīniōto finish, terminate; to set, appoint; to limit, bounddēfīniōto bound, set bounds to; to limit; to define, explain, designate by limiting; to terminate, finishīnstruōto build in or into, insert; erect, construct; to arrange, organise or organize, plan; devise; to prepare (for), provide
The English word appoint itself goes back to Latin pūnctum, through appunctō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
appoint
fix, statuere, constituere: destinare (fix, determine): designare (mark out). (The words are found in this connection and order), constituere et designare: dicere (say, fix, by word of mouth): eligere (choose; fix upon by choice): finire, definire (fix by assigning the limits; hence declare, fix. So circumscribere): convenit inter nos (seldom convenimus inter nos: we agree together, etc.). To appoint a day, diem statuere, constituere, dicere, eligere: beforehand, diem praestituere, praefinire: to appoint a time, tempus dicere, destinare: to appoint a time for the assault, adeundi (scilicet, castra) tempus de finire: to appoint time and place, tempus et locum condicere: to appoint a pretty distant day, diem satis laxam statuere: to appoint a day for the marriage, eligere nuptiarum diem; nuptias in diem constituere: a day for the execution, diem necis destinare alicui. To appoint a law, legem sancire. To appoint anybody wages, mercedem alicui constituere: a residence, circumscribere locum habitan di alicui: the bounds of his kingdom, terminare fines imperii. To appoint anybody one’s heir, aliquem heredem instituere; aliquem heredem testamento scribere, fecere; aliquem heredem nuncupare (i. e., to name him as such before witnesses). To appoint anybody (king, etc.), constituere aliquem (regem, etc): to appoint anybody the keeper of another, apponere aliquem custodem alicujus: to appoint any body the guardian of another, tutorem aliquem alicui constituere (of a prince): testamento aliquem alicui tutorem instituere (of a father appointing by will). Sometimes negotium alicui dare, ut, etc.
To appoint anybody to an office, constituere aliquem alicui munere: praeficere or praeponere aliquem muneri; mandare or deferre alicui munus: to appoint any body to succeed to another, aliquem in alicujus locum substituere (general term); aliquem in alicujus locum subrogare, sufficere (to choose anybody to succeed another who had died before the expiration of his office, etc.: subrogare of the proposer, sufficere of the people).
To appoint anybody or anything to or for anybody or anything, destinare alicuialiquid or aliquem (e.g., aliquam viro uxorem).
To appoint (= intend) anybody or anything to or far any office, fate, purpose, etc., destinare ad aliquid or alicui rei; designare ad aliquid (mark out for): seponere alicui rui or in aliquid (to set apart for).
To be appointed (= destined to any thing by fate), alicui rei or ad rem natum esse: fato tieri aliquid.”It is appointed to all men once to die”, etc., ea lege or hoc fato nati sumus, ut, etc.; ita a natura generati sumus, ut, etc.
Fix that a person should be present at such a time or place, aliquem adesse or venire jubere.”To appoint anybody to appear at Rome early in the following spring,” inito proximo vere Romae aliquem adesse jubere :”to appoint that a person should come back to one,” aliquem ad se reverti jubere: to appoint a place or time, condicere tempus et locum (coeundi, Justinus).
Well appointed, instructus: omnibus rebus ornatus atque instructus. Vid: EQUIP.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for appoint?
- The usual Latin words for “appoint” are statuō, cōnstituō, dēstinō; also dēsignō, dīcō, ēligō. 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.