English → Latin
“divulge” in Latin
vulgōto broadcast; to publish; to divulge; to issue; to make known among the people; to make common; to prostitute; to make kdīvulgōto spread among the people, make common, publish, divulgepervulgōto publish (make publicly known)ēvulgōto publish or promulgate among the peopledēclārōto declare or announce; to indicate, reveal or testify; to show or provedīcōto say, talk, speak, utter, mention; to declare, state; to tellaperiōto uncover, make or lay bare, reveal, clear; to make visible, discover, show, reveal, lay open; to unclose, open, break patefaciōto open, throw open; to disclose, uncover, reveal, bring to light
The English word divulge itself goes back to Latin vulgus, through dīvulgō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
divulge
vulgare: divulgare: pervulgare (to spread the news of anything, divulgare, with accessary notion of spreading in all directions; pervulgare, in a more extensive sense, through all the world, to let all the world know; e.g., rumorem, rem): evulgare: in vulgus edere (what was to be kept secret): signifioare, declarare, aperire sententiam suam: dicere, quid sentiam de re (to reveal or declare one’s opinion): palam facere: in lucem or in medium proferre (to make known, to expose): aperire: patefacere (to publish, to reveal, to lay anything open). (The words are found in this connection and order.) aperire et in lucem proferre: proferre et patefacere: enunciare (to publish, declare, etc., especially what ought to be kept secret, sociorum consilia, mysteria, etc. Cic., rem alicui per indicium, Caes.). You must not divulge it, hoc tibi soli dictum puta: anything is divulged, aliquid in vulgus emanavit. ☞ Dicta foras eliminare is poetical only (Hor., Ep., 1, 5, 25), instead of dicta foras efferre or proferre, to tell tales out of school.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for divulge?
- The usual Latin words for “divulge” are vulgō, dīvulgō, pervulgō; also ēvulgō, dēclārō, dīcō. 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.