English → Latin
“avail” in Latin
valeōto have strength, influence, power; to avail; to be well, healthy, sound; to be worth, be worthyūtilitāsusefulness, utility; expediency; advantageprōsumto be useful or of use, do good, help, benefit, profit; to serve; to be good or beneficialcondūcōto lead, bring or draw together; assemble, collect; to connect, join, unite; close up; coagulate; to hire, rent, employ,multummuch; very much, a lot; veryūtorto use, make use of, employ; to enjoy, indulge in, take advantage of; to experience, undergo, encountercommoduscomfortable, commodious, suitable, useful, convenient, becoming; opportune, timely, tidy; pleasant, friendlyēmolumentumeffort, exertion, labour; advantage, benefit, gain, profitlucrumprofit, advantage; love of gain, avaricefruorto enjoy; to derive pleasure from; to engage (in)
The English word avail itself goes back to Latin valeō, through valere.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
avail v.
valere (to have weight, validity, efficacy: with any body, apud aliquem): utile esse: usui esse: ex usu esse: utilitatem or usum praebere: prodesse: conducere. To avail much, magnae utilitati esse: magnam utilitatem afferre: plurimum or valde prodesse: to avail little, non multum prodesse: parum prodesse (too little). To avail anybody, prodesse alicui: esse ex usu alicujus: esse ex re or ill rem alicujus. Sometimes proficere may be used: patience avails nothing, nihil proficies or nihil prolicitur patientia. Conjecture does not avail, nihil valet conjectura.
avail s.
utilitas; usus: commodum; emolumentum: lucrum; fructus. [Mostly by verbs under Avail, v.] To be of much avail toward doing any thing, multum valere ad aliquid faciendum. Anything is of little avail against anything, aliquid parum valet contra aliquid.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for avail?
- The usual Latin words for “avail” are valeō, ūtilitās, prōsum; also condūcō, multum, ūtor. 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.