English → Latin
“charge” in Latin
adoriorto assail, assault, attack; to accost, approach; to undertake, initiate, engage inaggrediorto advance or go to or towards, approach; to approach, address, apply to, solicit; to attack, assault, beset, aggressincurrōto run into or towards; to attack, invade; to happen (to), befall, occur, to incuronerōto burden, lade, load, heap up anything in anything; to overwhelm, weary, oppress; to make more burdensome, aggravateiniungōto join or fasten, unite; to charge, impose (a burden); to enjoin or chargeimperōto command, give orders to, impose, demand; to rule, governmandōto order, command, enjoin; to put in hand; deliver over; to commit, consignnegōtiumbusiness, employment, occupation, affair; difficulty, pains, trouble, labor; matter, thing (= πρᾶγμα (prâgma))impēnsaexpense, outlay, costimpendiumexpense, expenditure, payment; cost
The English word charge itself goes back to Latin carrus, through carricō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
charge v.
assail, adoriri: aggredi: impetum facere or invadere in aliquem: incurrere, incursare in aliquem: anybody sword in hand, ferro petere or lacessere aliquem: in the rear, a tergo adoriri aliquem. [SYN. in Assault, v.]
Load, onerare: alicui onus imponere (Cic.), injungere (Liv.): gravare aliquem aliqus re: a wagon, onera in plaustrum imponere: a gun, *pulverem pyrium selopeto infundere: a cannon, *tormento telum immittere [Vid: LOAD]: to charge the property with a tax, etc., or to charge a tax upon the land, vectigal imponere agris: to charge anybody with taxes, tribute, etc., vectigalia imponere; tributa imponere (Caes.), irrogare, injungere (Tac.).
Commission, imperare, praecipere alicui aliquid: mandare, demandare alicui aliquid, or with ut; dare alicui negotium, or mandatum, ut: praedicere (to give directions beforehand: ut, ne); inculcare alicui (to, etc., ut, Cic., Vatin., 11, 26): jubere aliquem aliquid facere: anybody with a task, negotium, ministerium alicui imponere: the states with the duty of providing corn, horses. etc., imperare civitatibus frumentum, equos, etc.: to charge anybody to hold his tongue, imperare alicui silentium: vetare, ne quis aliquid enuntiet, divulget (Plin.). He charged them not to let the ambassadors go till he was sent back, eis praedixit, ne prius legatos dimitterent, quam ipse asset remissus (Nep.).
Intrust, permittere: committere (the committens acts in good trust in the power or will of another, whereby he imposes on him a moral responsibility: the permittens acts to get rid of the business himself, whereby he imposes, at most, only a political or judicial responsibility, Döderlein’s Synonyms): credere: concredere (very rare in Cic., never in Quintilian; common in comedy): mandare, demandare alicui aliquid: aliquid rejicere ad aliquem: aliquid alicui delegare (of what one ought otherwise to do one’s self). To charge anybody with the care of my purse, concredere alicui marsupium cum argento (Plaut.): with the care of a treasure, thesaurum alicui concredere (Cic.): with the care of one’s tafety, life, salutem committere alicui: caput permittere alicui (Curt.); vitam credere alicui (Ter.); vitam (ac fortunas suas) credere alicui (Lucilius, ap. Non): anybody with the care of one’s boy, alicujus curae puerum demandare (Liv.): anybody with a task, munus mandare or dare alicui: with the management of a great and difficult affair, rem magnam atque difficilem committere alicui (Cic.): with the management, direction, etc., of anything, alicui rei praeficere aliquem: with the defense of a city, alicui urbem tuendam dare: to charge anybody with the whole management of a business, totam rem ad aliquem rejicere.
Set down as a debt, rationibus inferre; inducere in rationem aliquid, also simply inducere alicui aliquid (Cic.; e.g., sumtum alicui): Vid: imputare aliquid (proper and improper) was not used in the Golden Age, but was by Col., Sen., Quint., and Tac.: aliquid expensum ferre (to set it down as paid to him; to charge his account with it). IMPR., assignare, tribuere alicui aliquid: vertere in aliquem aliquid. [Vid: ASCRIBE.]
To accuse, accusare: incusare: insimulare: in alicujus rei insimulationem vocare. [SYN. under ACCUSE.] To charge anybody with pride in anything, superbiae tribuere alicui aliquid. Also aliquid alicui exprobrare, objicere (cast it in his teeth).
Put a price on, indicare (to ask: opposed to promittere, to bid or offer). What do you charge for this? quanti indicas? to charge 100 sesterces, indicare centum nummis.
charge s.
commission, mandatum: res mandata: negotium: to neglect a charge, negligenter rem mandatam gerere (Cic.): a written charge, mandata scripta: to impose a charge on anybody, alicui dare mandatum, negotium; negotii aliquid alicui dare: to give anybody a written charge addressed to another, litteras mandataque alicui ad aliquem dare (Cic.): anybody a charge by word of mouth, verbis mandatum dare alicui (Sal); verbo mandatum dare (Cic.: Furnio plura etiam verbo quam scriptura mandata dedimus).
Cost, sumtus: impensa: impendium [SYN. in EXPENSE]: at my charge, meo sumtu; privato sumtu: at the public charge, publico sumtu: to be at charges, impensam, sumtum facere (in aliquam rem); sumtum in aliquid impendere, sumtum imponere, insumere, ponere in re: to be at no charges, nullam impensam facere.
What is intrusted to anybody’s care, by participle creditus, concreditus, commissus, commissus ac commendatus alicui; creditus et commissus alicui: (if only for a time), fiduciarius (e.g., opera fiduciaria, Herzog, Caes., B.C, 2, 17): depositum (thing deposited).
Monitory address, adhortatio.
Office, munus: munia: officium: partes: provincia. [SYN. in OFFICE]. To attend to one’s charge, munus administrare, or (Curt.) exsequi; munere suo fungi (impigre, Plin.); officium facere, praestare, etc.: to neglect one’s charge, male administrare or tueri munus (public office): de or ab officio decedere: officium praetermittere, negligere, deserere, officium suum non facere: officio deesse: ab officio discedere or recedere (neglect or violate one’s duty). To refuse a charge, munus recusare: to resign a charge, abdicare so munere.
Oversight, care, cura (care over or of): custodia (keeping of). (The words are found in this connection and order), cura custodiaque: sometimes tutela (protecting care): praesidium (care of one who presides, etc). To give anybody the charge of anything, credere alicui alicujus rei custodiam (Nep.): aliquid in custodiam alicujus concredere, committere, tradere (Plaut.): of a person, aliquem alicujus curae custodiaeque mandare; also custodem alicui ponere, apponere, imponere (for security): aliquem alicui in dlsciplinam tradere (for instruction): of a business, praeesse, praefectum esse alicui rei: praesidere alicui rei (e.g., over the games, the affairs of the city, etc): curare, regere, moderari aliquid: administrare aliquid. To be given in charge to anybody, in custodiam alicujus concreditum, commissum, traditum esse (Plaut.): curae alicujus commissum, traditum essa
Accusation, accusatio: incusatio: insimulatio: criminatio: crimen: false charge, calumnia. To bring against anybody a charge of, crimen alicui afferre or inferre: aliquem in crimen vocare, adducere. To condemn anybody on a charge of, etc., condemnare aliquem alicujus rei. Vid: SYN. and mare phrases under ACCUSE, ACCUSATION,
Attack of troops, incursus: incursio: excursio (of light troops). Frequent charges of caralry, procella equestris (Liv.): to sound a charge, bellicum canere: to order a charge of cavalry, equites immittere in hostem.
A load of powder, *pulveris pyrii quantum sclopeto immitti (or in sclopetum infundi) solet.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for charge?
- The usual Latin words for “charge” are adorior, aggredior, incurrō; also onerō, iniungō, imperō. 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.