What is the Latin word for commit?

The usual Latin words for “commit” are committō, permittō, mandō; also dēmandō, crēdō, comprehendō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

English → Latin

“commit” in Latin

committōto join together, unite, connect, put together; to practise or perpetrate wrong, do injustice; commit a crime; to begin permittōto let go, let loose; to cast, hurl, throw; send away, export; to give leave, give up, allow, suffer, grant, permit, sur mandōto order, command, enjoin; to put in hand; deliver over; to commit, consign dēmandōto entrust, commit crēdōto believe, to trust in, to give credence to; to confide in, have confidence in; to think, imagine, suppose, assume comprehendōto lay hold of something on all sides; take or catch hold of, grasp, grip; to seize upon in a hostile manner, lay hold o admittōto let in, admit; to perpetrate, commit patrōto execute, conclude, finish, accomplish; to orgasm, ejaculate perpetrōto carry through, complete, effect, bring about, achieve, execute, perform, accomplish; to commit or perpetrate; to succ

The English word commit itself goes back to Latin mittō, through committō.

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

commit

to intrust, committere (to leave it to a person, imposing on him a moral responsibility): permittere (to leave a thing quite to another): mandare. demandare (to commit to be kept or performed): deponere aliquid apud aliquem (to give anything to anybody to be kept safe): credere (e.g., occulta sua alicui credere): to commit (as it were, ) one’s self to anybody’s protection, se permittere, committere, tradere in alicujus fidem: to commit to memory, mandare memoriae aliquid.

To imprison, comprehendere (to arrest): in custodiam dare, in vincula conjicere (put into custody):

To be guilty of: facere: committere: admittere: in se admittere (the latter implying more of moral guilt): suscipere in se: patrare: perpetrare. To commit a crime, admittere scelus, maleficium, dedecus, flagitium. flagitium committere (Cic.) facinus in se admittere (Caes.); a foul crime, foedum facinus in se consciscere (Liv.): a theft, furtum facere: a murder, caedem facere (Cic.), edere, perpetrare (Liv.): a fault or blunder, errare; in errore versari; errore capi or duci in errorem induci (not, errorem committere): ridiculous faults, *labi in joculares errores (Ruhnken): to commit a breach of faith, perfidiosum esse: fidem violare or frangere: adultery, adulterium committere: what fault has he committed? quid designavit? (comedy) OBSERVE, “To commit” is often best translated by agere with a suitable adverb: to commit a folly, stulte agere: to commit an act of imprudence, imprudenter, or temere et imprudenter agere.

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What is the Latin word for commit?: The usual Latin words for “commit” are committō, permittō, mandō; also dēmandō, crēdō, comprehendō. 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.