English → Latin
“bribe” in Latin
mercēspay, wages, reward; revenue, income; chastisement, punishment, penaltypretiumworth, price, value, cost; pay, hire, wage; rewarddōnumgift, present; offering, sacrificepecūniamoney; wealth; cash, ready money, liquid wealthlargītiōgranting, bestowing, dispensing, distributing, imparting; largess; briberycorrumpōto pervert, corrupt, deprave or infect; to gain to oneself by gifts, etc.; bribe; to spoil or rotiūdiciumjudgment, decision; opinion; trialcorruptorcorrupter, misleader, seducer, briberlargiorto grant, bestow, dispense, distribute, impart; to lavish or bestow; to give bribes
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
bribe s.
merces, pretium, donum, pecunia, largitio. To offer one a bribe, pecunia sollicitare or oppugnare aliquem. To take a bribe, pecuniam accipere, fidem pecunia mutare: never, adversam dona invictum animum gerere. To resist a bribe, largitioni resistere.
bribe v.
corrumpere, with or without pecunia, mercede, pretio, donis, largitione; pretio mercari, donis ad suam causam perducere. To bribe the court, judicium or judices corrumpere. He that bribes, corruptor, largitor. A judge that may be bribed, judex venalis (pretio): that can not be bribed, incorruptus, integer.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for bribe?
- The usual Latin words for “bribe” are mercēs, pretium, dōnum; also pecūnia, largītiō, corrumpō. 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.