English → Latin
“bestow” in Latin
tribuōto grant, bestow, assign, attribute; to yield, give up, concede, allow; to divide, share, distributecōnferōto bring or collect together, gather; unite, join, connect; to bring or place together or near, set in opposition, opposimpertiōto bestow, impart, entrust; to share; to communicatedōnōto give; to present (someone with something); to bestow, grantlargiorto grant, bestow, dispense, distribute, impart; to lavish or bestow; to give bribesīnsūmōto spend or expend (money, time, effort); to apply, employ or bestowimpendōto spend or expend; to devote (money, time etc.) tocōnsūmōto take wholly or completely; to consume, devour, waste, squander, use up; annihilate, destroy, bring to naught; to killlocōto put, place, set; to arrange, establish; to lease, hire out, lendcollocōto place, put, set in order, assign, arrange; to put together, assemble; to settle
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
bestow
(confer, give)(confer, give), dare, tribuere, conferre, impertire, donare, dono dare, largiri: a benefit upon one, beneficium collocare apud aliquem, alicui dare or tribuere, conferre in aliquem: rich presents on one, muneribus magnis cumulare aliquem.
Lay out, apply, insumere, impendere, consumere, locare, collocare, conferre: time on something, tempus conterere, consumere in re: care, diligence on something, in aliqua re diligentiam adhibere, industriam locare, studium collocare: time well, tempus bene locare or collocare: money better, pecuniam melius insumere.
Give (a woman) in marriage, collocare in matrimonium, collocare; nuptum dare, locare or collocare. To bestow one’s self (of a woman), alicui nubere; (of a man), aliquem ducere in matrimonium or ducere.
Place, lay, put away, ponere, reponere, condere; inferre.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for bestow?
- The usual Latin words for “bestow” are tribuō, cōnferō, impertiō; also dōnō, largior, īnsūmō. 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.