English → Latin
“devolve” in Latin
dēvolvōto roll or tumble off or down; to roll, fall or tumble down, roll oneself down, fall headlong; sink down; devolvedēmandōto entrust, commitnegōtiumbusiness, employment, occupation, affair; difficulty, pains, trouble, labor; matter, thing (= πρᾶγμα (prâgma))cōnferōto bring or collect together, gather; unite, join, connect; to bring or place together or near, set in opposition, opposhērēditāsinheritance; hereditary succession; hereditary legacyrēgnumroyal power, power, control, reign; kingdom, realm, throne; kingship, royaltybonusgood, honest, brave, noble, kind, pleasant; right; useful
The English word devolve itself goes back to Latin volvō, through dēvolvō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
devolve
TRANS.
To roll down, devolvere.
To move from one to another; to make over anything to anybody, deferre aliquid alicui or ad aliquem (e.g., omnem suam auctoritatem ad negotium conficiendum, Cic.): mandare alicui aliquid (to charge him to perform it; e.g., negotium): demandare (to make over to another what one should PROP. perform one’s self; e.g., curam funeris): delegare alicui aliquid (to thrust off upon another what one ought to perform one’s self): cf., conferre and transferre aliquid ad aliquem are without ancient authority in this sense: transmittere aliquid alicui (e.g., huic hoc tantum bellum, Cic.; also filiae hereditatem, Plin.). To be devolved on anybody. Vid: To DEVOLVE, INTRANS.
devolve
INTRANS., pervenire ad aliquem (e.g., hereditas): transmittitur alicui (e.g., hereditas transmittenda erat filiae, ought to have passed to the daughter; Plin.): cedere alicui (e.g., Pompeii potentia in Caesarem cessit, Tac., villa creditoribus cessit): redire ad aliquem (e.g., regnum, Plaut.; summa imperii, Caes.; property, bona, Terentianus): obvenire alicui (e.g., hereditas; fundus alicui hereditate obvenit: aemilio novum bellum Etruria sorte obvenit, Liv.): venire alicui (e.g., on whom the command of the fleet had devolved [by lot], cui classis venisset, Liv., ; so hereditas venit alicui, Cic.). An estate, property, etc., which devolves upon anybody, hereditas quae alicui venit or obvenit; quae ad aliquem venit or pervenit.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for devolve?
- The usual Latin words for “devolve” are dēvolvō, dēmandō, negōtium; also cōnferō, hērēditās, rēgnum. 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.