English → Latin
“designation” in Latin
dēsignātiōa designating, describing, marking out, specification; a disposition, arrangementnōminātiōnaming; nominationnotātiōmarking, noting; choice, designation; observationfīnisend; limit, border, bound boundary, frontier; boundaries, bounds, frontiers; by extension, territory, region, landssorsanything used to determine chances, lot; a casting or drawing of lots, a decision by lot, by fate, or by allotment or shprōvinciaoffice, official duty, command, formal responsibility given to a magistrate; a task, responsibility, burden; the office sententiaa way of thinking, view, opinion, judgement or sentence; a purpose, intention, will (one's thinking in respect to the funōtiōacquaintance (becoming acquainted); examination, investigation; notion, ideasignificātiōsignal, sign, mark, token; applause; meaning, importvolōto wish, to please; to want; to mean, to intend
The English word designation itself goes back to Latin signō, through dēsignātiō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
designation
Act of marking out, or appointing to, designatio (e.g., sine designatione personarum et temporum, Cic.: designatio consulatus, his appointment to the consulship; Tac.): nominatio (naming): notatio (as action; also of denoting by words) :
That to which a person or thing is appointed, finis (the final purpose for which a thing is intended): sors: provincia (the sphere of a person’s duties; his office, calling, etc.).
Import (of a word; Locke), sententia. notio: significatio: vis: potestas.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for designation?
- The usual Latin words for “designation” are dēsignātiō, nōminātiō, notātiō; also fīnis, sors, prōvincia. 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.