English → Latin
“bailiff” in Latin
administrōto attend upon, assist, serve; to take charge of, direct, manage, administer, do, accomplish; governprōcūrātormanager, overseer, superintendent; procurator (office); agent, deputyvīlicusbailiff, steward of a farm/estate; villagerappāritora gatekeeper; a public servant; a servant, secretary, lictor, deputy
The English word bailiff itself goes back to Latin baiulus, through *bāiulivus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
bailiff
administrator: procurator (manager of the affairs of an absentee by commission): villicus (an under-steward of a manor): to commit the management of an estate to a bailiff, villicum fundo familiaeque praeponere: apparitor (an officer of a court of justice, whose business it is to execute arrests, etc.; also lictor: but these words answer in part only to our bailiff or catchpoll): the high bailiff, quaesitor ac judex primus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for bailiff?
- The usual Latin words for “bailiff” are administrō, prōcūrātor, vīlicus; also appāritor. 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.