English → Latin
“depute” in Latin
dēlēgōto send, assign, dispatch, delegate; to confide, entrust; to lay, impose upondēferōto bear, carry or bring down or away; convey; take, remove; to bring to market, sell; to give to someone, grant, confer
The English word depute itself goes back to Latin putus, through deputo.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
depute
mandare alicui, ut, etc. (to commission anybody): delegare (e.g., aliquem huic negotio; to depute him to perform it; e.g., in Golden Age, of deputing a person to perform what one should perform one’s self): deferre, demandare alicui aliquid (entrust anybody with the care of anything; e.g., curam alicujus rei): to depute the tribunes to attend to the wounded, curam sauciorum militum tribunis demandare (Liv.). ☞ Deputare = (1) to prune, (2) to reckon, consider, etc. Sometimes alicui alicujus rei faciendae licentiam dare, or permittere: liberum alicujus rei arbitrium alicui permittere (both meaning to give to anybody competent authority to act) may serve: to be deputed by anybody, mandata habere ab aliquo: to do anything in consequence of being deputed by anybody, alicujus nomine (in anybody’s name and by anybody’s authority); aliquo auctore (as anybody’s representative) facere aliquid. Vid: DELEGATE.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for depute?
- The usual Latin words for “depute” are dēlēgō, dēferō. 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.