English → Latin
“determination” in Latin
dēfīnītiōdefinition; precise description; specification; boundary, limitlīmitātiōdetermination (fixing a boundary etc.)cōnsiliumplan, intention, design, purpose; counsel, advice; determination, resolve, resolutionsententiaa way of thinking, view, opinion, judgement or sentence; a purpose, intention, will (one's thinking in respect to the fuiūdiciumjudgment, decision; opinion; trialdēterminātiōboundary; end, conclusion; determinationcōnstōto stand together; to stand still; to remain the same; stand firm; to agree, correspond, fitcōnfirmōto make firm, establish, re-establish, strengthen, fortify, mature, confirm; to encourage, animate, embolden; persuade; dījūdicātiōjudging, deciding, determiningdisceptātiōdispute, disputation, debate, discussion
The English word determination itself goes back to Latin terminō, through dēterminātiō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
determination
Act of determining, definitio (act of marking out, defining, etc., hominum et temporum definitio, determination of the particular persons meant, and of the times when the events were to occur): limitatio (the marking out the boundaries or limits; Vitrvius, Col.).
Act of determining a cause: determination of a cause, dijudicatio (act of deciding a question): disceptatio (PROP., the discussion that precedes the determination, but also = determination; e.g., disceptatio arbitrorum, Quint., 11, 1, 43): judicium: sententia (determination formally declared by a judge, etc.): arbitrium (decision of an arbiter). To come to a determination in the case of anybody, de aliquo constituere (Nep.). The determination of that question is very difficult, magna est ista dijudicatio (Cic.).
Resolution, decision, consilium (purpose; resolve): sententia (opinion): judicium (deliberate judgement). A sudden determination, repentina voluntas: to adopt a determination or come to a determination, consilium capere or inire: to come to the determination, in animo habere: to adhere to one’s determination, in proposito susceptoque consilio permanere: it is my fixed determination, certum est mihi; stat mihi (sententia); statutum habeo cum animo et deliberatum: not to be able to come to any determination, animi or animo pendere; varie or in diversas partes distrahi certum consilium capere non posse; certa aliqua in sententia consistere non posse; haereo, quid faciam; in incerto habeo, quidnam consilii capiam: with the determination to, etc., eo animo, ut: with the same determination as, etc., ea mente, quam, etc.
End; the putting an end to, etc., determinatio (e.g., mundi, orationis, Cic.).
Direction; act of directing (e.g., in “the determination of the will to an object”). [Vid: DIRECTION.]
Decision of character, constantia: animi constantia (Ov.): constantia morum (Tac.): animus certus or confirmatus (firmness): animus praesens: animi praesentia (quickness and presence of mind to decide according to circumstances).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for determination?
- The usual Latin words for “determination” are dēfīnītiō, līmitātiō, cōnsilium; also sententia, iūdicium, dēterminātiō. 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.