English → Latin
“canvass” in Latin
texōto weave, knit; to plait, intertwinecannabishempambitiōA going around or about; that which surrounds.; A desire for one's favor or good will; excessive desire to please, flattprensātiōa soliciting, suing, canvassing for an officeambitusa going around, walking around; circuit; orbit, revolution, cyclescrūtorto search carefully, search into or out, examine thoroughly, explore a thing, investigate; to seek forperscrūtorto search (high and low); to examine or investigate (thoroughly)cōnsīderōto examine, look at or inspect, survey; to consider, reflect, contemplate, meditateambiōto round, go round, pass around, skirt; to surround, encircle; to solicit for votes, campaign, canvasscircumeōto go, travel or march around; to circulate; to skirt; to surround, encircle, enclose or encompass
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
canvass
textum. quod dicitur Canevas; canava, canevasium.
Going round to ask for votes, ambitio, prensatio: ambitus (by illegal means).
canvass v.
to investigate, scrutari; perscrutari; considerare.
To canvass for votes, ambire, circumire (circumire stronger than ambire, Cic.., Att., 14, 21, Antonium circumire veteranos, ut acta Caesaris sancirent: that is, he made, in his canvassing, the round from first to last: ambire would only express his canvassing, and addressing the veterans in general. Vid: Döderlein’s Synonyms, p. 12).
CANVASSING. ambitio: prensatio.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for canvass?
- The usual Latin words for “canvass” are texō, cannabis, ambitiō; also prensātiō, ambitus, scrūtor. 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.