English → Latin
“complete” in Latin
plēnusfull; filled; complete; full of; plump; bulkyintegercomplete, whole, intact, uninjured, sound, healthyabsolvōto release, discharge; to loosen from, make loose, detach, untie; to pay offperficiōto finish, complete; to perfect; to carry out, execute, performvērustrue, real, actual (conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct); true, genuine (not counterfeigermānusof brothers or sisters; full, own; true, natural, authenticcompleōto fill up, fill full, fill out; make up, complete; to cover, overwhelm; to occupy, set up a garrison (military)expleōto fill up, occupy completely; to appease, satisfy, placate the thirst, satiate the hunger; to supply, repair, compensatsuppleōto make up the numbers, fill up, complete, make good; supply, supplement; to fill up, furnish with a complement, recruitcōnficiōto prepare, accomplish, complete, execute; settle, close a bargain; traverse; to produce, cause, bring about, effect, se
The English word complete itself goes back to Latin pleō, through completus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
complete
plenus (general term, having its full number, size, etc.): integer (whole, unmutilated, etc.): absolutus: perfectus: (the words are found in this connexion and order.) absolutus et perfectus: perfectus atque absolutus: expletus et perfectus: perfectus cumulatusque: perfectus completusque (that has the highest perfection, complete): verus: germanus (real, genuine): thoroughly complete, absolutus omnibus numeris; perfectus expletusque omnibus suis numeris et partibus: totus (whole; opposed to single parts): totus integer (in the fullest manner or sense; Gell., 12, 1, in.): justus (having the required quality or number; e.g., defeat, caedes: army, exercitus): a complete philosopher, philosophus absolutus: a complete orator, orator perfectus; homo perfectus in dicendo: a complete Stoic, perfectus Stoicus (that cannot be found fault with); germanissimus Stoicus (deviating in nothing from the Stoic school): to make anything complete, absolvere (to accomplish anything, so that nothing is wanting in it; e.g., a benefaction, beneficium); cumulare aliquid (to put the finishing stroke to a thing, to crown it; e.g., joy, gaudium).
complete v.
complere: explere (to fill up; e.g., a gap): supplere (supply, restore, what was defective; e.g., the legions, legiones): absolvere (place in such a state that nothing is wanting; e.g., a benefaction, beneficium): aliquid plene or plene cumulateque perficere (give to anything the highest degree of perfection): ad exitum adducere. ad finem perducere (general term for to bring to an end): conficere (finish, perform): consummare (to consummate, bring to a point, accomplish; classical since the Augustan age, Vid: Ruhnken, Vell., 2, 89): perpolire (give the last polish, with reference to mental productions; also (the words are found in this connexion and order.), perpolire atque conficere): extremam or summam manum imponere alicui rei (to give anything the finishing stroke, Verg., Aen., 7, 573: Sen., Ep., 12, 4: Quint., 1, proaem., 4).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for complete?
- The usual Latin words for “complete” are plēnus, integer, absolvō; also perficiō, vērus, germānus. 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.