English → Latin
“breed” 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,creōto 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, decideferōto bear; to carry; to support, hold up; to suffer, tolerate, endure, bearefferōto bring, bear, carry, take out, forth, away; transport; to carry out (of the house) for burial, bear to the grave, buryprōferōto bring out, bring forth; to make known, produce in public, publish, reveal; to appear, show oneselfnūtriōto suckle, breastfeed, nurse; to feedalōto feed, to nourish, to nurture; to cultivate, to raise, to rear, etc. (as a child, an animal, etc.); to cause (a thing)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
breed
gignere, generare, creare, procreare; parere: ferre, efferre, proferre (of th earth, nature). Where were you bred (born)? ubi natus es? FIG., to breed imitators, imitatores creare. Crime is bred of vice, scelera ex vitiis manant. This will breed a quarrel, rixam hoc excitabit. INTR., nasci, gigni, creari, generari, procreari; oriri: bring forth, parere, partum edero, fetare, fetus edere.
Bring up, nutrire, alere, educere, educare; tollere, suscipere: (children physically and morally) educare, rarely educere. To breed cattle, pecus nutrire, alere, educare. Well-bred, bene doctus et educatus, liberalibus disciplinis institutus: (genteel) urbanus. To be bred up in a thing, alicui rei innutriri: to a thing, ad aliquid educari, ad aliquid a puero institui.
breed s.
genus; seminium. Dogs of noble breed, nobiles ad venandum canes. In choosing the breed, in seminio legendo. A royal breed, regio sanguine orti.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for breed?
- The usual Latin words for “breed” are gignō, generō, creō; also prōcreō, parō, ferō. 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.