English → Latin
“capacity” in Latin
amplitūdōA wide extent; breadth, width, amplitude, size, bulk, multiplicity, abundance.; Greatness; dignity, grandeur, prestige, capācitāscapability; capacity; comprehensionintellegentiaintelligence, the power of discernment; understanding, knowledge; taste, skill, the capacity to be a connoisseuringeniuminnate or natural quality, natural character; nature; disposition, temper, inclination; intelligence, natural capacity
The English word capacity itself goes back to Latin capiō, through capācitās.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
capacity
amplitudo (siu): capacitas (capaciousness): ingenii facultates (mental endowments): intelligentia: intelligendi prudentia: vis percipiendi: ingenium: to possess great capacity, ingenio abundare: to possess capacity for, facultatem aliquid faciendi habere; facultate aliquid faciendi praeditum esse: to be beyond one’s capacity, vires excedere: to adapt one’s self to the capacity of learners, ad intelligentiam discentium descendere: to adapt one’s self to common capacities, sensum ad communem vulgaremque se accommodare; ad commune judicium popularemque sententiam se accommodare; intelligentia a vulgari non remotum esse: to sharpen the capacity, ingenium, or intelligendi prudentiam, acuere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for capacity?
- The usual Latin words for “capacity” are amplitūdō, capācitās, intellegentia; also ingenium. 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.