English → Latin
“beget” in Latin
gignōto bring forth as a fruit of oneself: to bear, to beget, to engender, to give birth to; to produce, to cause, to yield; generōto bring to life, to confer life upon: to beget, to breed, to father, to impregnate, to procreate, to sire; to generate,suscipiōto take up, acknowledge; to undertake, assume, begin, incur, enter upon (especially when done voluntarily and as a favorcreōto create, to give existence to, to form, to make, to produce, to originate out of other materials or (post-Classical) oprōcreōto beget, generate, procreate, produceparōto arrange, order, contrive, design; to provide, furnish, prepare; to resolve, purpose, decidelīberfree, independent, unrestricted, unchecked, unrestrained, licentious; freeman, freewoman; open (not decided or settled)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
beget
gignere (general term of men, animals, etc.): generare (more select expression: of the gods, nature. etc.): gignere et procreare: liberos procreare; liberis (sc. procreandis) operam dare; liberos ex (not ab) aliqua gignere; liberos ex (not ab) aliqua sustulisse or suscepisse. Only-begotten, unicus (not unigenitus, which, however, may be retained as a technical term in theology).
Fig., to cause, creare (e.g., periculum, errorem, voluptatem): procreare (periculum): parere (dolorem, taedium, somnum). To beget suspicion in anybody, suspicionem alicui movere, importare, facere, efficere, dare, praebere: also suspicionem parere, Nep.: hesitation, doubt, dubitationem alicui inferre, injicere, also dare, Caes.; some doubt, nonnullam in dubitationem aliquem adducere: fear in anybody, timorem alicui facere, injicere, incutere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for beget?
- The usual Latin words for “beget” are gignō, generō, suscipiō; also creō, prōcreō, parō. 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.