What is the Latin word for enfranchise?

The usual Latin words for “enfranchise” are largior, concēdō, vindicō; also impertiō, tribuō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“enfranchise” in Latin

largiorto grant, bestow, dispense, distribute, impart; to lavish or bestow; to give bribes concēdōto depart, retire or withdraw, come away, come, go away; to disappear or vanish; to relinquish, concede, relent, subside vindicōto lay claim to as one's own (often with sibi); to set free, liberate, emancipate; to protect someone from (+ ab or ex a impertiōto bestow, impart, entrust; to share; to communicate tribuōto grant, bestow, assign, attribute; to yield, give up, concede, allow; to divide, share, distribute

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

enfranchise

libertatem alicui dare, largiri, concedere: aliquem in libertatem vocare, vindicare (general terms Vid: FREE): aliquem manu mittere: aliquem manu asserere in libeitatem (to emancipate a slave; the last of the public emancipation, before the praetor, of one who had before been a free man): alicui civitatem dare, impertiri, tribuere; civitate aliquem donare; diploma civitatis alicui offerre (Suet.); aliquem in civitatem ac- or re-cipere; aliquem ascribere civitati, or in civitatem; aliquem in civitatem, or in numerum civium asciscere; civem aliquem facere. If to “enfranchise” = “to give the right of voting,” suffragium alicui impertiri or dare (both Liv.). OBS., the jus civitatis included the jus privatum (e.g., jus connubii and jus commercii) and the jus publicum (e.g., jus suffragiorum and jus honorum). Those who had the privatum jus were cives, but not optimo jure cives; Vid: Dict. of Antiqq., p. 261. To be enfranchised (= admitted into citizenship), consequi civitatem: recipi in civitatem; civitate donari; civitati alicui ascribi; in civitatem pervenire. (of the present state), civem esse; in civitatem (in civitate or civitati) ascriptum esse.

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What is the Latin word for enfranchise?: The usual Latin words for “enfranchise” are largior, concēdō, vindicō; also impertiō, tribuō. 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.