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“deliver” in Latin

The English word deliver itself goes back to Latin līber, through dē.

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

deliver
Set free, etc., liberare re or a re: exsolvere re (to set free from bonds; PROP., and figuratively from debt, anxiety, punishment, etc.): eximere re, or ex, or de re (to release by taking out of, etc., from fear, slavery, punishment, etc., with de re when it means “to exempt;” e.g., agrum de vectigalibus: post-Augustan, with dative): levare re (to deliver from a weight = an unpleasant state, such as that of fear, care, trouble): expedire ex re, re (disentangle from; Cic. has ex laqueis, but molestia without preposition; also ab omni occupatione; Ter. has molestia, aerumnis, crimine, cura, but ex turba): in libertatem vindicare (to set free, rempublicam, patriam, populum; from anything, ex re; e.g., ex dominatu alicujus, Cic.): extrahere ex re (to drag out of anything): eripere ex or a re (to snatch from anything; the two last mean to deliver out of dangers or unpleasant states); from slavery, servitute liberare or excipere; servitio eximere; e servitute in libertatem restituere or vindicare; servile jugum e cervicibus alicujus dejicere; ab aliquo servitutis jugum depellere; alicui conditionem servilem eripere; from a blockade, liberare obsidione; eximere obsidione or ex obsidione; from debt, aere alieno liberare or exsolvere; from pecuniary difficulties, dimcultate pecuniarum exuere. [Vid: To FREE: and the particular substantives, TROUBLE, SORROW, CARE, etc.]
To deliver (without express mention of “fin what”). To deliver one’s country, patriam e servitute in libertatem vindicare; patriam eripere ex hostium manibus: to deliver a prisoner, aliquem liberare custodiis, eximere vinculis: to deliver a city, urbem obsidione liberare (from a blockade).
To save, servare; conservare: salutem alicui dare; salutis auctorem esse alicui (to deliver anybody, or save anybody’s life, or civil existence): to deliver a city from the enemy, urbem ab hostibus recuperare (to recover it): to deliver anybody from destruction, ab interitu vindicare or retrahere; ab exitio ad salutem revocare; a morte eripere, (Cic.): to be delivered from the very jaws of death, a limine ipso mortis revocari.
To deliver (in child-birth), mulieri parienti adesse or opem ferre: to be delivered, partum edere; parere; of a child, partui edere infantem: to be delivered of twins, geminum partum edere (Liv. 1, 4): cf., eniti (enisus, Liv.; enixus, Quint.) is not found in this sense before Liv., ; e.g., 40, 4.
To hand over to anybody, tradere (to deliver anything to the care of anybody, alicui aliquid): reddere (to deliver or restore anything received to its proper owner, alicui aliquid): deferre (to deliver anything to the charge of anybody, aliquid ad aliquem): perferre (to convey anything to anybody and deliver it to him, aliquid ad aliquem: all these apply to a letter, litteras; epistolam: cf., but dare litteras ad aliquem means to write to anybody). To deliver with one’s own hand, rem de manu in manum tradere.
To DELIVER OVER; Vid: DELIVER UP.
To DELIVER DOWN, tradere (by writing; and of traditional customs, etc., consuetudo a majoribus tradita).
To DELIVER UP, dedere (general term, to anybody, alicui; to anything, ad aliquid; to something to be suffered, alicui rei; to something it is to serve, patriae, libidini alicujus; and figuratively, to a pursuit, studio, litteris): prodere (treacherously): tradere (to hand over to; deliver over to; e.g., urbem, arma, thesaurum), etc.: cedere (to yield up a possession; currum, regnum possessionem; all, alicui): to deliver up to be tortured, aliquem ad cruciatum dedere: to deliver anything into a person’s own hands, aliquid alicui ipsi (coram) tradere in manum (Plaut.): to deliver up deserters, dare or reddere transfugas; perfugas restituere (e.g., according to compact, ex foedere): to deliver up arms, beasts of draught, etc. (of a city to the enemy), arma proferre; jumenta producere (Caes., B.G., 7, 11): to deliver anybody up to be killed, dedere aliquem ad supplicium, necem, or (Tac.) exitium; exhibere aliquem ad ferrum; aliquem ad supplicium; tradere aliquem supplicio (Suet., Vitell., 14): to demand that anybody should be delivered up, exposcere aliquem (e.g., of a state, publice): deposcere aliquem, with or without in poenam, ad supplicium: to deliver a city up to the enemy. urbem tradere hostibus in manum; urbem dedere; urbis deditionem facere.
To utter, speak, etc. pronunciare (to deliver a speech): recitare (to deliver with appropriate expression): to deliver anything from memory, aliquid memoriter pronunciare or proferre (proferre applies to recitation before an audience): to deliver a speech, orationem habere, agere or dicere (general terms): concionari, concionem habere (to harangue a multitude; the people, soldiers, etc.); before anybody, verba facere apud aliquem; to the people, verba facere apud populum (general term): ad or apud populum agere (as a public accuser; the proposer of a law, etc.): he delivered a speech to this effect, verba ita fecit: to deliver anything verbatim, or word for word, iisdem verbis aliquid reddere: to deliver anything hi a mechanical, or sing-song manner, aliquid decantare: to deliver anybody’s message to anybody, mandata alicujus ad aliquem perferre (about anything, de aliqua re): to deliver one’s opinion, sententiam suam promere, expromere, depromere, prodere, aperire; quid velim, or sentiam, dicere, ostendere, profiteri: by deputy, sententiam suam per alium ostendere; with freedom, libere dicere or loqui; before anybody about anything, libere aliquid profiteri apud aliquem.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for deliver?
The usual Latin words for “deliver” are servō, cōnservō, trādō; also reddō, dēferō, perferō. 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.