English → Latin
“distrain” in Latin
committōto join together, unite, connect, put together; to practise or perpetrate wrong, do injustice; commit a crime; to beginPaulusA cognomen of the Aemilius clan.; Paul (biblical figure).
The English word distrain itself goes back to Latin stringō, through distringō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
distrain
bona alicujus vendere or (Gell.) venum distrahere (to sell a debtor’s property; Vid: Gai., 2, 154): in possessionem rerum debitoris mitti (this was said of creditors put in possession of their debtors’ property for thirty days, within which a sale was to be advertised and made; Vid: Dict, of Antiqq., p.165, under bonorum emtio): pignus capere [Vid: under DISTRAINT]: aliquid commisso tollere or commisso vindicare (to seize goods, etc., for non-payment of taxes Seaev., Dig., 19, 2, 61, extr.; Paullus, Dig., 39, 4, 11): also committere (e.g., ne praedia in publicum committerentur, Paullus, Dig., 3, 5, 12): distrained, commissus (e.g., hypothecae commissae = “quae in potestatem creditoris veniunt ob omissionem solutionis ad diem dictam; “but this is when there was a clause to that effect in the deed): property that has been distrained, quod pro commisso tenetur; quod cecidit or venit in commissum. Anybody’s goods have been distrained, alicujus bona venierunt; aliquis necessitate juris bonorum venditionem passus est (Gai. 2, 154). Vid: EXECUTION (legal).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for distrain?
- The usual Latin words for “distrain” are committō, Paulus. 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.