English → Latin
“cherish” in Latin
foveōto warm, keep warm; to nurture, cherish, foster; to foment, batheaestimōto determine the value of something; value, price, rate, appraise, assess; estimate, reckon, consider, judge; to estimatcūrōto arrange, see to, attend to, take care of, look after, ensure, tend to; to heal, cure; to govern, command, preside ove
The English word cherish itself goes back to Latin cārus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cherish
fovere (to cherish; PROP., by imparting genial warmth: then, figuratively, to love and protect tenderly: aliquem, Cic.): aliquem carum habere; aliquem magni facere or aestimare: curare (attend to): fovere ac tollere (Tac., to cherish and help forward). To cherish hope, spem fovere; spem habere: to cherish hatred against anybody, odium habere in aliquem: to cherish one’s grief, dolorem fovere: to cherish anybody’s memory, memoriam alicujus colere: gratissimam alicujus memoriam retinere: to cherish the memory of anything, memoriam alicujus rei tenere, retinere, servare, conservare; memoria aliquid custodire, sepire, tenere. Any body cherishes my memory, memoria mea viget in alicujus animo, haeret in alicujus mente (Cic.). His memory will be cherished in all ages, memoriam illius excipient omnes anni consequentes. Continue to cherish my memory, bona, grata, jucunda memoria mei vigeat in animo tuo; fac mei bene memor sis; noli committere, ut memoria mei unquam animo tuo effluat (Cic.). I shall always cherish his memory, memoria illius nunquam ex animo meo decedet (Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for cherish?
- The usual Latin words for “cherish” are foveō, aestimō, cūrō. 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.