English → Latin
“concoct” in Latin
concoquōto boil or seethe together, cook thoroughly; concoct; to prepare, ripen, mature; to digestinveniōto find; to discover, find out, learn; to come upon, meet withreperiōto find, find out, learn, realise, ascertain, discover, inventexcōgitōto contrive, devise or invent (by thinking); to think up or create out of nothingfingōto shape, fashion, form, knead (dough); to touch, touch gently, stroke, stroke gently, handle; to adorn, dress, arrangecomminīscorto devise, contrive, inventcoquōto cook; prepare food; to ripen; to roast, drymāchinorto devise, invent; to plot evil, contriveēmentiorto lie; to fabricate, pretend, feignprōdūcōto lead or bring forth, forward or out; to conduct to; bring before, present; to draw or stretch out, lengthen, extend
The English word concoct itself goes back to Latin coquō, through concoquō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
concoct
to digest, concoquere (TR. and INTR., PROP.; then figuratively both, to digest a matter, e.g., anything one has read, etc., as Sen., Ep., 84, 6, and to submit to, or to bear anything or anybody, as in Cic., ad Div., 9, 4, med; Liv., 4, 15).
To contrive or to plot, invenire: reperire (to find out, the former accidentally; the latter, after reflection): excogitare (to strike out by thinking, concoct): fingere: comminisci (to invent, to contrive, design): coquere: concoquere (to design, brood over, or hatch, as it were): machinari (to contrive cunningly): ementiri (to invent falsely): dolos nectere, producere (to cabal). Vid: CABAL.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for concoct?
- The usual Latin words for “concoct” are concoquō, inveniō, reperiō; also excōgitō, fingō, comminīscor. 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.