English → Latin
“enact” in Latin
sanciōto render, make or appoint as sacred or inviolable by a religious act, sanctify (make holy); to devote, consecrate, dediagōto act, to behave; to do; to make (something that does not continue to exist after the maker stops)quōminusthat notferōto bear; to carry; to support, hold up; to suffer, tolerate, endure, bear
The English word enact itself goes back to Latin āctus, through actum.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
enact
sancire (absolutely, or with ut, ne, quominus; Solon de eo nihil sanxit, quod antea commissum non erat, Cic.): legem ferre; about anything, legem ferre, or ferre only, de re: sancire or sciscere legem (of the Roman people accepting and passing a law): legem condere, scribere, conscribere (to draw up a law): to enact a law about anything, legem jubere or sciscere de re (of the Roman people); legem or lege sancire de re (of the Senate and people). To enact (a law) that, etc., ferre legem, ut (or ne); sciscere or jubere, ut (or ne, of the people); legem alicui constituere, ut or ne (if enacted for another nation). The law is enacted, lex valet: perfertur (is carried through). To enact laws for a nation, leges dare, constituere civitati (dare, especially of a sovereign; but legem dare, constituere, facere, absolutely, in the sense of giving or drawing up a law, is not Latin): leges alicui (populo, civitati) imponere (to impose them tyrannically).
Act a play, agere: to enact the part of anybody, aliquem or partes (alicujus) agere; personam alicujus tueri.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for enact?
- The usual Latin words for “enact” are sanciō, agō, quōminus; also ferō. 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.