English → Latin
“convey” in Latin
portōto carry, bear; to convey, bring; to wearasportōto carry away or take off, remove; transport, trainvehōto carry, bear, convey, transport; to ride; to be bornevectōto bear, carry, conveyferōto bear; to carry; to support, hold up; to suffer, tolerate, endure, bearbaiulōto carry a burdentrānsportōto carry across; to transporttrānsvehōto carry, bear, convey across or over; to transport; to pass byabdūcōto lead away or aside, take away, bring away, carry off; detach, remove; to take (with one) to dine; to take asidecomportōto carry, transport or convey; to amass or collect
The English word convey itself goes back to Latin via, through *convio.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
convey
To carry, portare: asportare (from one place to another, as corn, effects, etc.): vehere: vectare (especially by animals, a vehicle, or by slaves, all three indicating the state of motion): ferre (to carry, e.g., a burden): bajulare (on one’s shoulders or back): transportare: transvehere aliquo (to convey either by water or land to a place; of persons and things): a loco transferre or deportare aliquo (to convey from any place to some other): transvehere (to convey across by means of a vehicle, etc.): abducere (to convey from a place, especially of persons, then of things also). (the words are found in this connection and order), auferre et abducere: perferendum curare (to convey to the place of its destination): comportare (to convey together, or to one place): transferre (convey across): devehere (from a place; e.g., aliquem equo devehere aliquo, to convey anybody from a place to some place on horseback): to convey provisions to the army, exercitui commeatum supportare: to convey food (the hand, etc.) to the mouth, cibum ad os ferre, admovere; manum ad os admovere: to convey across a river, traducere trans flumen: to convey anybody under an escort to any place, aliquem cum custodibus mittere aliquo: not one of the transports, that conveyed the soldiers, was missing, nulla navis, quae milites portaret, desiderabatur: to convey the troops back in two embarkations, duobus commeatibus exercitum reportare (Caes., B.G., 5, 23, in.).
To transmit [Vid: TO SEND]: perferre (to carry to anybody; e.g., litteras; and IMPROP., commissions or commands, alicujus mandata): perferendum curare (to have anything conveyed). He had every thing conveyed to his own house, ad se omnia transtulit (i. e., from another’s, Nep.): deportare (to have a person conveyed under the care of guards to the place of his banishment).
To convey one’s self to any place, se conferre aliquo: in aliquem locum se conferre: ire, proficisci aliquo.
To make over (a right or property), cedere alicui aliquid or aliqua re; concedere alicui aliquid; transcribere alicui aliquid (by a written document, Digesta): to convey a part of some property, cedere alicui aliquid de aliqua re: of one’s share in a thing, cedere parte sua; also cedere alicui possessione alicujus rei (e.g., gardens, hortorum): to convey property to a mortgagee, rem hypothecae nomine obligare (jurisconsults).
Convey away, amovere (e.g., nebulonem ilium ex istis locis, Cic.): demovere: removere (put it aside): portare: asportare (e.g., corn, effects, etc.): amoliri (to remove a mass by violent exertion): avehere: devehere (draw away by a vehicle or beast of burden: devehere mostly with mention of the place to which): abducere (PROP. to lead away a person; then also things). (the words are found in this connection and order), auferre et abducere. To convey away secretly or by stealth, clam removere: furto subducere (of hostages, Liv., 9, 11): subtrahere (e.g., the baggage, impedimenta).
To convey one’s self away, amovere se (e.g., he resolved to convey himself away at once, and to the greatest possible distance, statuit repente recedere, seque e medio quam longissime amovere, Suet.): abire, etc. [Vid: GO AWAY.] IMPROPRELY, To convey a meaning, mostly by vis subjecta est voci; haec vis est verbi, etc. [Vid: MEANING.]
Communicate intelligence, etc., Vid. COMMUNICATE, IMPART.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for convey?
- The usual Latin words for “convey” are portō, asportō, vehō; also vectō, ferō, baiulō. 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.