English → Latin
“differ” in Latin
differōto carry different ways, spread, scatter, disperse, separate; to distract, disquiet or disturb someone; confound; to sprdissideōto sit apart; to be divided, separate or remote from; to disagree, think differently; to be unlike, different or dissimidistōto stand apart; to be distant; to differdiscrepōto disagree (with), differ or vary
The English word differ itself goes back to Latin ferō, through differō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
differ v.
To be different, differre; in anything, aliqua re or in aliqua re; from anybody, ab aliquo: distare (to be separated by an interval; not in this sense in Caes.); aliqua re; in anything, ab aliqua re [poetically, alicui or alicui rei]: discrepare (PROP. of difference in sound, aliqua re or in aliqua re; from anything, a or cum aliqua re; cum aliquo; about anything, de aliqua re; all three with inter se, from each other): diversos esse: to differ very widely, longe esse diversa atque sejuncta (Cic.), plurimum differre. To differ only in words, verbo inter se discrepare, re unum sonare (Cic.). To differ much, or in many respects, multum [☞ not multa] differre, multum inter se distare: to differ little, paullum differre.
To disagree, discrepare cum aliquo and cum re (not to be in unison with, opposed to concinere): dissidere, dissentire a and cum aliquo (not to agree in opinion; opposed to consentire): writers differ from each other, discrepat inter scriptores, inter auctores: to differ from any one more in words than in reality, ab aliquo dissentire verbis magis quam sententiis: to agree with one in reality, but to differ in words, re concinere, verbis discrepare cum aliquo.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for differ?
- The usual Latin words for “differ” are differō, dissideō, distō; also discrepō. 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.