English → Latin
“carry” in Latin
sustineōto hold up or upright, uphold, support, sustain; to keep up, bear up, tolerate; to hold or keep back or in, stay, check,ferōto bear; to carry; to support, hold up; to suffer, tolerate, endure, bearbaiulōto carry a burdenportōto carry, bear; to convey, bring; to weargerōto carry, bear; to manage, conduct (e.g., one's affairs); to rule, governgestōto bear, carry; to have, hold, wield; to ride, sail, drive, especially for pleasurevehōto carry, bear, convey, transport; to ride; to be bornevectōto bear, carry, conveyabdūcōto lead away or aside, take away, bring away, carry off; detach, remove; to take (with one) to dine; to take asidedēdūcōto lead or bring out or away, divert; escort, accompany, conduct (out of one's house as a mark of respect or for protect
The English word carry itself goes back to Latin carrus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
carry
sustinere (to lift up and remain stationary): ferre (to carry, as a load): bajulare (to carry on the shoulder, as a pack): portare (to transport frum one place to another): gerere; gestare (to carry about, whether on the back, or in the arms, or hand): vehere; vectare (to convey by means of beasts or slaves, whether persons or things, frum one place to another): to carry a boy in the arms, in manibus gestare puerum: to carry loads on the back, as beasts of burden, onera dorso gerere sicut jumenta: to be carried through the city in a litter, lectica ferri or portari, gestari or vehi per urbem: my feet carry me of their own accord to your room, ad diaetam tuam ipsi me pedes ducunt (Plin., Ep., 7, 5, 1): to carry one’s all with one, omnia sua secum portare: to carry home, domum ferre: to carry one’s self home, or make one’s self scarce, domum se auferre (in comedy): to carry to the grave, funere efferre, or merely efferre: a gun carries far, e tormento tela longssime mitti possunt: to carry a gold chain, aureo torque ornatum esse: to carry a sword, gladio cinctum or succinctum esse: to carry a point, adipisci; assequi; consequi: to carry one’s self honorably, honeste se gerere: to carry to account, in rationem inducere, or merely inferre or inducere.
CARRY AWAY, abducere, deducere; avehere, devehere (by any conveyance): vi abducere; vi abstrahere (by force): furto susducere (by stealth): to be carried away by the stream, vi fluminis abreptum esse.
CARRY OFF (= destroy). [Vid: DESTROY.]
CARRY OUT or THROUGH, ad finem perducere; absolvere; exsequi.
CARRY ON an art or profession, artem exercere; factitare: to carry on with spirit, omni studio incumbere in aliquid; diligenter persequi quod; summa industria versari in re.
CARRY OVER, transportare; transvehere (by land or water): transmittere; trajicere (by water).
To carry a point, vincere: to carry the day, victoriam consequi or adipisci; victoriam reportare; sueriorem or victorem discedere; palmam ferre; victoriam referre (ex aliquo); victoriam reportare ab or de aliquo. Prov. to carry coals to Newcastle, ligna in silvam ferre: a thing to extremities, ultima experiri: a thing too far, modum excedere in re: water through anybody’s land, aquam per fundum alicujus ducere: any body’s demands to anybody, alicujus ad aliquem postulata deferre: to carry a town by assault, urbem vi or per vim expugnare; vi or impetu capere: to carry it high, or with a high hand, insolentem, superbum, etc, se gerere: to carry a bill through, legem periferre: rogationem perferre.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for carry?
- The usual Latin words for “carry” are sustineō, ferō, baiulō; also portō, gerō, gestō. 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.