English → Latin
“contrivance” in Latin
inventiōinvention, discovery; inventing; plan, stratagemexcōgitātiōcontriving, devising, inventinginveniōto find; to discover, find out, learn; to come upon, meet witharsart, skill, craft, handicraft; trade, occupation, employment; cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagemmāchinacontrivance; war machine, military engine, siege engine; scaffoldmāchinātiōcontrivance; machine, engine; machination, artificecōnsiliumplan, intention, design, purpose; counsel, advice; determination, resolve, resolutionratiōreason, reasoning, explanation, ground, motive, rationality, rationale, purpose; calculation, account, accounting, reckocōnorto try, attempttechnaA piece of craft or subtlety; wile, trick, artifice, cunning device
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
contrivance
as act, inventio: excogitatio.
As thing, inventum: res inventa (invention; Vid: Cic., Brut., 56, 205): ars: artincium: machina (trick, artful means; in comedy, techna, stropha, from τέχνη, στροφή): machinatio (contrivance against anybody, in a bad sense). To apply contrivances, adhibere macbinas (ad aliquid faciendum, Cic.): to devise some contrivance, commoliri dolum et machinam aliquem; artificium quoddam excogitare: to ruin anybody by one’s contrivances, machinis labefactare or percellere aliquem (Cic.): The Greeks are adepts in all contrivances for getting money, Graeci omnes vias pecuniae norunt: a peculiar contrivance of one’s own, quod aliquis per se invenit. By anybody’s contrivance, alicujus macbinis (e.g., to be ruined, labefactari): alicujus opera (by anybody’s means or exertions); aliquo auctore. O cunning men! O clever contrivance! O callidos homines! O rem excogitatam! (Cic.).
Scheme, plan, consilium: ratio (means, method): machina: machinatio: conatus (malicious, ill-natured contrivance): To adopt, have recourse to, etc., some contrivance, consilium capere, inire: against anybody, in consequence of anything, contra aliquem, de aliqua re. Vid. SCHEME, PLAN.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for contrivance?
- The usual Latin words for “contrivance” are inventiō, excōgitātiō, inveniō; also ars, māchina, māchinātiō. 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.