English → Latin
“articulate” in Latin
clārusclear, bright; renowned, famous, famed, distinguished, illustrious, celebrated, glorious; upstanding, respectedplānuslevel, flat, even; intelligible, clearexplānōto flatten or spread out; to explainagōto act, to behave; to do; to make (something that does not continue to exist after the maker stops)verbumword; proverb, saying; verbApuleiusof ApuleiusArnŏbĭusAn African Church father in the time of Diocletian
The English word articulate itself goes back to Latin artus, through articulātus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
articulate adj.
clarus: planus: explanatus. An articulate voice, vox clara (clear: opposed to obtusa); vox explanabilis (opposed to perturbata. Sen., de Ira, 1, 3, 5). An articulate utterance, osplanum or explanatum (opposed to os confusum). To be an articulate speaker, explanatae esse linguae (after Plin.).
articulate v.
pronunciare (verba). In Lucr., Apuleius, Arnobius, articulare verba: [has voces] mobilis articulat verborum daedala lingua, Lucr., 4, 551: to learn to articulate, primum fari coepisse (Suet., of children): loqui discere (of beasts, etc.): to teach any body to articulate, aliquem verba edocere; aliquem sermoniassuefacere.
To make terms, to treat: de conditionibus tractare or agere (cum aliquo).
To draw up in articles, in capita conferre.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for articulate?
- The usual Latin words for “articulate” are clārus, plānus, explānō; also agō, verbum, Apuleius. 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.