English → Latin
“denounce” in Latin
testorto be witness, testify, attest; to summon as a witness, call to witness, invoke, entreat, swear by, appeal to; to make atestificorto testify, bear witness; to bring to light, demonstratecōnfirmōto make firm, establish, re-establish, strengthen, fortify, mature, confirm; to encourage, animate, embolden; persuade;
The English word denounce itself goes back to Latin nūntius, through dēnūntiō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
denounce
Inform against, accusare aliquem: aliquem in jus vocare, or in judicium adducere (to denounce in a court of justice): citare aliquem reum (to denounce or summon in a court of justice); for SYN., Vid: To ACCUSE, etc.: notare (to mark, i. e., as guilty, blamable, etc.; e.g., rem, aliquem, improbitatem alicujus, etc.): deferre nomen alicujus (de aliqua re; post-Augustan, deferre aliquem; PROP., to give in a person’s name to the practor as being guilty of such and such a crime :”to denounce a person as a parricide,” nomen alicujus de parricidio deferre, Cic., ; the person to whom the denouncement is made may be in the dative, or in the accusative with ad; the crime may stand in the genitive after nomen, but more usually takes de).
To declare openly, etc., nunciare; renunciare (to denounce or declare openly): denunciare (to denounce or declare in a very positive, often in a threatening manner): testari: testificari (to call the gods, etc., to witness one’s assertion): confirmare (to make a strong assertion): I denounce to you that (e.g., ye shall perish, Deut., xxx.) testor (Nep.), or denuncio (Cic.), or testificor, denuncio atque praedico (Cic., all with accusative and infinitive): to denounce war, bellum indicere or (if in a threatening manner) denunciare.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for denounce?
- The usual Latin words for “denounce” are testor, testificor, cōnfirmō. 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.