English → Latin
“congratulate” in Latin
congrātulorto wish joy; to rejoice with; to congratulategrātulorto congratulate (to express one's sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for); to rejoice; to give than
The English word congratulate itself goes back to Latin grātus, through congrātulātus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
congratulate
congratulari (alicui, absolute: alicui rei): gratulationem facere: gratulatione fungi (to offer one’s congratulations; also, mutua gratulatione fungi, i. e., to congratulate one another): gratulari; on account of anything, alicui aliquid or de re (that anything has taken a happy turn; e.g., on anybody’s arrival, alicujus adventum or alicui de adventu: also with accusative and infinitive): to congratulate anybody on the arrival of the new year, optare alicui et ominari in proximum annum laeta (after Pliny, Ep., 4, 15, 5): one another, primum incipientis anni diem laetis precationibus invicem faustum ominari (Pliny, 28, 2, 5; ☞ Ovid, Fast., 1, 175: cur laeta tuis dicuntur verba Kalendis): OBS., A substantive after “to congratulate,” is often translated by a past participle; e.g., to congratulate anybody on the recovery of his liberty, gratulari alicui recuperatam libertatem.
To congratulate one’s self, gaudere: to congratulate one’s self on anything, gaudere, laetari aliqua re, de aliqua re: we congratulate ourselves (rejoice) that etc., bene nobiscum actum esse putamus, quod etc.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for congratulate?
- The usual Latin words for “congratulate” are congrātulor, grātulor. 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.