“decide” in Latin

disceptare aliquid (to decide a question of right, after weighing the arguments on both sides; then = to decide. generally, and also to decide by arms): decernere aliquid or de re, or absolutely (to determine judicially after deliberation, etc., then to determine generally; also with the sword): dijudicare aliquid (to give judgement in a cause, and so settle the question; also generally, or with the sword): judicare aliquid or de re (to decide or pass sentence as judge, or generally): arbitri partes suscipere (absolutely to decide a controversy as arbiter): decidere aliquid or de re (to cut off, as it were, all further litigation; also decidere cum aliquo, to settle a matter with a person, and absolutely): statuere, constituere (to decide or settle a controverted point). (The words are found in this connection and order.) decidere statuereque (to decide and determine, etc., what, quid): momentum facere alicui rei or in aliqua re; momentum afferre ad aliquid (of a circumstance which gives the decisive turn to anything): pronunciare (to pronounce sentence, as a judge; and of anything that pronounces judicially; e.g., reason will decide the point equitably, aequam pronunciabit sententiam ratio, Cic.): to decide a point, affirmare de re (i. e., to state one’s decided opinion about it): to decide a cause, pronunciare de causa, re, etc. (Quint.): to decide a controversy, controversiam disceptare, decernere, dijudicare (all three also by arms, ferro): controversiam dirimere (Cic., Off., 3, 33, 119; dirimere litem, Ov.): de controversia decidere, statuere, constituere. ☞ OBS. secare, lites, res, etc. is poetical (Hor., Ep., 1, 16, 42: and Sat., 1, 10, 15.) controversiam componere (to arrange it; to bring parties to an agreement): to decide a question, quaestionem solvere; also decidere (Ulpius); a lawsuit, dijudicare litem; in favor of the accused, secundum reum dare litem or judicare (opposed to contra reum dare litem): matters not to be decided by mere opinion, res ab opinionis arbitrio sejunctae: to decide the battle, pugnam decernere; the victory, momentum afferre ad victoriam: arms must decide, omnia armis agenda sunt: when circumstances require it, the sword must decide, cum tempus postulat, manu decertandum est: the sword has already decided, jam decretum est (Cic., ad Div., 10, 10, 2): the fate of the republic will be decided by a single battle, in uno proelio omnis fortuna reipublicae disceptat (ibid.): to decide the affair by arms, ferro inter se decernere. I am to decide it, res penes me posita est: I alone am to decide it, alicujus rei potestas omnis in me est posita: not to decide anything, integrum or injudicatum relinquere aliquid: a thing not yet decided, res integra: the matter is not yet decided, adhuc sub judice lis est (Hor., A.P., 78); adhuc de hac re apud judicem lis est (Asc., ad Cic., Verr., 1, 45, p. 335, ed. Schütz): it will soon be decided, *brevi patebit, manifestum fiet (i. e., it will soon be generally known). Whether the passions are also a part of it, is a question that is not yet decided, perturbationes sintne ejusdem partes, quaestio est: his fate is not yet decided, non habet exploratam rationem salutis suae.

INTRANS.,

Determine, resolve, decernere: consilium capere: apud animum statuere, constituere: destinare: animo proponere: censere: placet alicui: sciscere: jubere: (The words are found in this connection and order.) sciscere et jubere (of the assembly of the people; sciscere, especially of the plebs; jubere, of the whole populus): to decide upon anything, pronunciare, constituere de re: to decide upon doing anything, decernere aliquid faciendum (Sall., Cat., 4, 1): to decide (= declare one’s self) for anybody, alicujus partes sequi. OBS. To “decide,” absolutely = “to decide a cause” (e.g., in favor of anybody) will be found under DECIDE, TRANS.I have decided, certum mini est: as soon as I have decided, simul ac constituent. I have quite decided, statutum cum animo habeo ac deliberatum; deliberatum mihi ac constitutum est; mihi certum est; certum est deliberatumque; mihi judicatum est; all with infinitive. To decide unanimously, omnium consensu constituere.