English → Latin
“destination” in Latin
dēstinātiōresolution, determination, purpose, design; destination; obstinacylēxthe legal machinery of a state, the law; a law, statute, bill; the laws regarded as a body, the constitutionfātumdestiny, fate, lot; death; speechfīnisend; 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 locusplace (referring to a specific location); a passage of literature; opportunity; cause; occasion; groundsitaso; yes; thus
The English word destination itself goes back to Latin dēstinō, through dēstinātiō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
destination
destinatio (Liv.; perhaps not pre-Augustan; a purpose, determination, decision): lex, qua nati sumus; fatum, quo nati sumus (the purpose we are born to serve, etc.): finis (the end anything is to serve): sors: provincia (the sphere of action assigned to anybody). It is our destination to, etc., ea lege (hoc fato or ita) nati sumus, ut, etc.; ita a natura generati sumus, ut, etc.; hoc nobis propositum est, ut, etc. Nature hath assigned us a higher destination, natura nos ad majora genuit et conformavit; ad altiora quaedam et magnificentiora nati sumus: man is born to a glorious destination, homo praeclara quadam conditione generatus est a summo Deo: not to be fitted for its destination, non aptum esse ad exsequendum munus suum: not to accomplish its destination, deesse officio suo et muneri: what the destination of man is, cujus muneris colendi efficiendique causa nati atque in lucem editi simus (Cic.) :
Place to which anybody or anything is to go, *locus alicui destinatus; locus, quo tendit: *locus, quo proficisci jussus sum (to which I am ordered to go): sedes futura (my future residence).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for destination?
- The usual Latin words for “destination” are dēstinātiō, lēx, fātum; 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.