English → Latin
“earn” in Latin
dēmōto remove, take away, or subtract; to withhold, take away, subtract fromquaerōto seek, look for; to ask, question, seek or search for a thing, inquire, query, interrogate; to strive for; endeavor; sassequorto follow someone in order to come up to him; pursue, go after; to overtake, come up with, reach, catch up; to gain, obtcōnsequorto move, travel, come, pass or go after, or follow behind another (in time and/or space); to chase, to pursue, to go aftcomparōto prepare, get ready, provide, furnish; to compare, match, place together, couple, form into pairsmereōto deserve, merit; to earn, get, obtain, acquire; to serve, to render service to (with ablative of the person or thing icommereōto merit or deserve (fully); to err in, commit an offence or crime, perpetrate; to be guilty ofprōmōto take or bring out or forth, produce, bring to lightprōmereōto be deserving of, deserve, merit, earn; to acquire, earn, gain, get, winmanushand; bravery, valor; violence, fighting
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
earn
Gain by labour, etc., demerere (e.g., grandem pecuniam): quaerere (strive to obtain; e.g., manu, by manual labour): assequi: consequi: comparare (obtain; assequi stronger than consequi, as more necessarily implying personal exertion): to earn one’s bread or livelihood in any way, aliqua re victum quaerere or quaeritare: to earn money in anyway, aliqua re pecuniam sibi facere or colligere; quaestum facere aliqua re: to earn immortality, immortalitatem assequi (Cic.); praise, glory, etc., laudationem, laudem, gloriam comparare (aliqua re or ex aliqua re); dignitatem, gloriam consequi. [Vid: OBTAIN.]
Make one’s self worthy of anything by one’s actions, merere: mereri: commerere: commereri (to deserve anything at once by anything): promerere, promereri (to deserve as a suitable compensation for what one has done: all these of deserving either reward or punishment).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for earn?
- The usual Latin words for “earn” are dēmō, quaerō, assequor; also cōnsequor, comparō, mereō. 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.