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“department” in Latin
mūnusa service, office, employment; a burden, duty, obligation; a service, favorcūracare, concern, thought; pains, industry, diligence, exertion; anxiety, grief, sorrowmūniaduties, functionsofficiumduty, service, office; obligation, an obligatory service, visit, or gesture; kindness, favor, courtesycūrātiōtreatment, care, operation (medical, surgical); administration, office (public)ministeriumministry (office of a minister); employment, ministration; service, duty (attendance of or action by an inferior person genusbirth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type, class; species (general classification, as of living things), taxon (of ani
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
department
Sphere of business, provincial; munus; cura; munia, plur., (functions, duties, public or private): officium (duty): curatio (PROP. the managing, but also the business to be managed by anybody; also of public offices; me sinas curare ancillas; quae mea est curatio, Plaut., Cas., 2, 3, 43; Vid: Liv., 4, 12, 13): ministerium (e.g., the management of his department, curatio ministerii sui, Liv., 4, 12): that does not belong to my department, munus meum hoc non est: to manage a (public) department, negotium publicum obire: the naval department, provincia maritima (Liv., 37, 2); provincia classis (Liv. 41, 1; ☞ 42, 48): the naval department belongs to anybody, alicui provincia maritima est, or alicui classis provincia evenit (ibid.) the foreign department, *cura, or administratio rerum externarum (Bau.).
The department of a country; district, pars: regio (district). ☞ not provincia. To divide the country into four departments, terram in quatuor regiones or partes describere, dividere: in departments, regionatim (Liv., 45, 30, in.).
Branch of litterature, genus: certum aliquid litterarum genus: admirable in his own department (of litterature), admirabilis in suo genere: to confine himself exclusively to a single department of litterature, in una re (e.g., in una philosophia) quasi tabernaculum vitae sua; collocasse (Cic., De Or., 3, 20, 77).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for department?
- The usual Latin words for “department” are mūnus, cūra, mūnia; also officium, cūrātiō, ministerium. 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.