English → Latin
“approve” in Latin
approbōto regard as good, approve, favor or favour, commend, endorse; to make evident, prove, demonstrate, confirm, establish; laudōto praise, laud, extol; to commend, honor; to eulogizepraedicōto proclaim, declare publicly; to announce, make known; to praise, commend, extolassentiorto agree with; assent to, approve, give assent or approvalsatisfaciōto satisfy, content; to secure, pay off; to apologize, make amendsprobōto approve, permit, commend; to test, to inspect; to examinespectōto watch, observe, look at, consider; to examine, try, test; to aim, strive, or endeavour after
The English word approve itself goes back to Latin ad, through approbō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
approve
probare aliquem or aliquid: approbare, comprobare aliquid: laudare (to praise): praedicare (to extol): assentire or assentiri alicui rei (assent to): album calculum adjicere alicui rei (Plin., vote for it): ratum habere (to recognize as valid; e.g., the acts of a governor, etc.: of a law, sometimes jubere). To approve of what has been done, probare ea quae facta sunt. See more under Approbation.
To approve one’s self to anybody, se alicui probare. To approve one’s selffaithful, etc., se fidum praestare, praebere.
To prove, probare aliquid alicui, etc., Vid:
Approved, to be, probari alicui or ab aliquo: placere alicui; laudari (to be praised, etc.): satisfacere (to satisfy). More under APPROBATION.
Approved (= tried and allowed to be so): probatus; spectatus; spectatus et probatus; spectatus et cognitus; spectatus jam et diu cognitus; confessus (allowed). A man of approved virtue, integrity, etc., homo probatus or spectatus; homo virtute cognita; vir spectatae integritatis.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for approve?
- The usual Latin words for “approve” are approbō, laudō, praedicō; also assentior, satisfaciō, probō. 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.