English → Latin
“compliance” in Latin
facilitāsease, easiness, facility, readiness; willingness; affability, courteousness; levity, heedlessnessobsequiumcomplaisance, yielding, compliance, obedience; allegiance; deference, obsequiousness, flatteryobsequorto accommodate oneself to the will of another person; comply with, yield to, gratify, oblige, humor, submit; to yield toofficiumduty, service, office; obligation, an obligatory service, visit, or gesture; kindness, favor, courtesyindulgeōto be kind or courteous (to); to be inclined (to); give free rein (to); to give oneself up (to); to be addicted (to), in
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
compliance
propensa voluntas (ready disposition): facilitas (readiness): obsequium: obsequentia (a yielding to the wishes and humour of others, the latter, Caes., B.G., 7, 29): officium (kind or complaisant sentiment or action, of him who wishes to show any attention or render any service to anybody): voluntas officiosa (disposition to render a service, Ov., Pont., 3, 2, 17): To force anybody into compliance, *cogere aliquem, ut concedat de postulatis. too great compliance, nimia obsequentia: indulgentia (indulgence).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for compliance?
- The usual Latin words for “compliance” are facilitās, obsequium, obsequor; also officium, indulgeō. 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.