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“entrust” in Latin

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

entrust
permittere: committere (the committens acts in good trust in the power or will of another, whereby he imposes on him a moral responsibility: the permittens acts to get rid of the business himself, whereby he imposes at most only a political or legal responsibility. Döderlein): credere: concredere (very rare in Cic., never in Quint.., common in comedy): commendare et concredere: mandare, demandare alicui aliquid: aliquid rejicere ad aliquem: aliquid alicui delegare (of what one ought otherwise to do one’s self): deponere aliquid apud aliquem (to give anything to anybody in trust). To entrust anything to the faith of anybody, fidei alicujus aliquid committere or permittere; tradere in alicujus findem aliquid. To entrust anybody with the care of my purse, concredere alicui marsupium cum argento (Plaut.): with the care of a treasure, thesaurum alicui concredere (Cic.): with the care of one’s safety, life, salutem committere alicui; caput permittere alicui (Curt.); vitam credere alicui (Terentianus); vitam (ac fortunas suas) credere alicui (Lucilius, ap. Non.): anybody with the care of one’s boy, alicujus curae puerum demandare (Liv.): anybody with a task, munus mandare or dare alicui: with the management of a great and difficult affair, rem magnam atque difficilem committere alicui (Cic.): with the management, direction, etc., of anything, alicui rei praeficere aliquem: with the defence of a city, *alicui urbem tuendam dare: to entrust anybody with the whole management of a business, totam rem ad aliquem rejicere: to entrust one’s plans to anybody, consilia sua alicui credere: one’s secrets, occulta sua alicui credere: to entrust one’s honor to anybody, existimationem suam committere alicui. Entrusted (to anybody’s care), creditus, concreditus, commissus, alicui commissus ac commendatus; creditus et commissus alicui: (if only for a time), fiduciarius (e.g., opera fiduciaria, Herz., Caes., B. C. 2, 17): depositum (thing deposited).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for entrust?
The usual Latin words for “entrust” are permittō, committō, crēdō; also concrēdō, mandō. 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.