English → Latin
“estate” in Latin
stōto stand; to stay, remain; to cost, to be set at, stand at (e.g., a price)praediumfarm; estate; manorvīllacountry house; villa; estate, farm; a cityfundusbottom; farm, piece of land, estate, demesne; groundagerfield; acre; land; estate; park; territoryrūscountryside, country, lands, fields; farm, estate; villageopsstrength, power, power to help, property; resources, wealth, riches; assistance, help, aid, support
The English word estate itself goes back to Latin status.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
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Landed property; usually with a real estate, praedium (sometimes the house on the estate): villa (a country-house; sometimes the estate): fundus (the real estate; usually with a country-house; villa is an architectural, fundus, an economical, praedium, a juridical term; Döderlein). An estate in the country, rusticum praedium: ager: rus (PROP., country; opposed to town; then metonymy, for “estate in the country “). ☞ On the construction of rus, rure, in this sense, Vid: Obs. in FARM, s. Estates, agri (fields, landed property); possessions (possessions, whether land or not). [Vid: PROPERTY]. To lay out money in purchasing a landed estate, pecuniam collocare in solo (Suet., Tiberius, 48): an estate near a town, propinquum rus (Ter., Eun., 5, 6, 2).
The estates of the realm, *ordines imperii.
Man’s estate, aetas pubes: anni pubertatis (age of puberty); aetas constans, or constans, quae media dicitur; aetas adulta, firmata, confirmata, corroborata (age of full manly strength). To come to man’s estate, robustiorem fieri; se corroborare; pubertatem ingredi: when he was now come to man’s estate, cum is se jam corroboravisset, et vir inter viros esset (Cic., caelius, 11, 6).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for estate?
- The usual Latin words for “estate” are stō, praedium, vīlla; also fundus, ager, rūs. 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.