English → Latin
“bind” in Latin
colligōto gather, draw, bring or collect (together), assemble, pick up; contract, draw up, compress, concentrate; harvest; to mvinciōto bind, tie up, fetter; to lace, fasten; to surround, guardcōnstringōTo hold or bind together, to bind, fetter, restrain, hinder, inhibit, hold in check; To bring into a narrow compass, to ligōto tie, bind; to bandage, wrap around; to unitecōpulōto bind or tie together, unite, join, couple; to associate with; to connectcoërceōto enclose on all sides, hold together; surround, encompass; to curb, restrain, tame, correct, appease; to restrain, keealligōto bind to, up or around something, tie, fetter, fasten; bandage; to hold fast, hinder, detain; to oblige, lay under obldēligōto pick off, pluck off; to cull; to choose or select; to enroll, levyilligōto attach, fasten, bind, tie onastringōto draw close, bind or tie together; tighten, contract; to check, repress, restrain; to put under obligation, oblige, ne
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
bind
chain, fetter, colligare, vincire, constringere. OBSERVE: ligare, copulare, to bind for the purpose of keeping together: vincire = coercere, to bind for the purpose of hindering free movement: so nectere in the old times of the Republic; afterward, with the stronger nexare, to entwine, etc., e.g., flores, coronam: one with fetters, chains, aliquem vinculis colligare, catenis vincire, vinculis or catenis constringere. To bind one hand and foot, quadrupedem aliquem constringere. Figuratively, to bind up (tie the hands of), aliquem circumscribere; aliquem coëncere.
Fasten, tie, ligare, alligare, deligare, illigare; astringere; revincire: a napkin about the neck, ligare sudarium circum collum. To bind one to the stake, aliquem alligare ad palum. To bind one’s hands behind his back, manus religare, manus illigare, or religare post tergum.
Fasten together into a whole, colligare, vincire: the hair into a knot, crines in nodum cogere: hay, foenum vincire: sheaves, manipulos colligere, vincire. To bind a book, librum compingere.
Cement, ligare, vincire.
Fix, colligare. To bind a sandy soil, solum arenosum arboribus, herbis, etc., colligare.
To bind up, alligare, deligare; obligare: a wound, obligare, or ligare vulnus: the eye, oculum alligare. To bind up the book in one volume, librum eodem volumine complecti. My welfare is bound up in yours, tua salute continetur mea. To bind up flax into bundles, linum in fasciculos manuales colligare.
To inwrap, envelope, involvere; induere alicui aliquid.
To connect, unite, res inter se jungere, colligare; conjungere, connectere aliquid cum aliqua re. All the virtues are bound together, omnes virtutes inter se nexae sunt.
To restrict, confine, astringere, obstringere: by an oath, obstringere jurejurando. To be bound (tied, confined) by something, constrictum, obstrictum esse, teneri aliqua re (as a vow, promise, etc.).
To constrain, oblige, alligrare, obligare, obstringere, devincire. The law binds any one, lex tenet aliquem. To be bound to a fixed poetic measure, alligatum esse ad certam pedum necessitatem. To be bound to the observance of a league, foedere alligatum or illigatum esse. To bind a man by an oath, aliquem sacramento adigere. To bind one’s self to do a thing, se obligare alicui rei (or with ut); se obstringere in aliquid (by oath, sacramento; to a crime, in scelus). I am bound to do this, hoc meum est. To be bound (obliged) to one, alicujus beneticiis obligatum esse. To be bound to serve one, alicui obnoxium esse.
To make costive, astringere. To bind the body, alvum astringere.
To bind over, vadari.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for bind?
- The usual Latin words for “bind” are colligō, vinciō, cōnstringō; also ligō, cōpulō, coërceō. 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.