“digest” in Latin

(collection of Roman laws)(collection of Roman laws), digesta (plur. adjective; ☞ Justinus, Cod. Just., 1, 17, 3).

In the stomach, concoquere (transitively and intransitively; PROP., also figuratively, both of digesting what one has read [Sen., Ep., 84, 6], and of “stomaching” or putting up with a person or thing; aliquem, famem, haec, Cic.; ista odia, Petronius): conficere: perficere (transitively; to work up thoroughly; PROP., but only of the organs of digestion). to digest one’s food, cibos concoquere or conficere (conficere only of the organs of digestion). ☞ Avoid the use of digerere cibos in this sense; for cibi digeruntur (it is in this way only that the phrase occurs; never in the active, of the person digesting) means “the masticated or digested food is distributed through the system;” Vid: Cels. (praef.); but digeri may be used when no distinction is necessary; e.g., cibos mansos demittere, quo facilius digerantur (Quint. 10, 1, 19). Easy to digest, facilis ad concoquendum: hard to digest, difficilis ad concoquendum, concoctioni, or concoctu; quod ditficulter concoquitur. The food we have taken is a burden to the stomach till it is digested, alimenta, quae accepimus, quamdiu in sua qualitate perdurant et solida innatant stomacho, onera sunt (Sen., Ep., 84, 6).

Arrange in order, digerere: in ordinem digerere: descripte et electe digerere (opposed to confuse et permiste dispergere): disponere (e.g., of the parts of an oration, etc.): to digest a plan, instituere rationem alicujus rei; describere rationem alicujus rei (of ordering what one has arranged): to follow a well-digested plan, modo ac ratione omnia facere. To digest (what we have read), concoquere (Sen.); lectionem non crudam, sed multa iteratione mollitam et velut confectam memoriae imitationique tradere (Quint. 10, 1, 19): unless we digest what we have read, it will burden the memory, without improving the mind, *concoquenda sunt, quaecunque legimus; alioquin in memoriam ibunt, non in ingenium (after Sen., Ep., 84, 6).