English → Latin
“appropriate” in Latin
dīcōto say, talk, speak, utter, mention; to declare, state; to tellsacrōto declare or set apart as sacred; consecrate, dedicate, hallow or devote; sanctify, enshrine; to doom or devote to destcōnsecrōTo consecrate or dedicate; To hallow or sanctify; To deifytuusyour (singular), thy
The English word appropriate itself goes back to Latin proprius, through appropriātus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
appropriate
addicere alicui aliquid (recognize it as his property): dicare, dedicare alicni aliquid (appropriate expressly to anybody, whether to a god or to a man): aliquid alicujus facere (aliquid meum, tuum, etc., facere for second and thirdpersons): aliquid alicui proprium tradere (Cic.., to deliver it to him for his own): aliquid alicui proprium facere (Hor.): sacrare, consecrare (to dedicate to a god).
To appropriate to one’s self, aliquid suum facere: aliquid sibi or ad se vindicare; also, vindicare aliquid (to claim as one’s property, whether justly or not): in se tranaferre aliquid (to appropriate it unjustly): arrogare sibi aliquid (to claim presumptuously what does not belong to one): sumere or assumere sibi aliquid (to take to one’s self what does not rightfully belong to one): sibi inscribere aliquid (of giving to ones self a title or character; e.g., nomenphilosophi): occupare aliquid (of seizing anything before another who might wish to do the some): sibi uni aliquid tribuere. To appropriate to one’s self a part of anything, partem alicujus rei ad se vindicare: aliquid ex aliqua re sibi arrogare (e.g., of another man’s merit, ex aliena laude): aliquid ex aliqua re sibi decerpere (e.g., ex alicujus laude). The nobles appropriated to themselves three magistracies, tres magistratus nobilitas sibi sumsit.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for appropriate?
- The usual Latin words for “appropriate” are dīcō, sacrō, cōnsecrō; also tuus. 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.