English → Latin
“exceed” in Latin
excēdōto go out, go forth or away; depart, retire, withdraw; disappear; to overstep, overtop, overpass, rise above, go beyond;ēgrediorto go or come out or forth; march or step out; to disembark, land; to ascend, mounttrānseōto traverse; cross, cross over; go across or over; pass, pass through, over or by; to defect, go over (to an adverse sidtrānsiliōto jump over, leap across; to hasten, go quicklysuperōto surmount, rise over, rise above, go over, ascend, overtop, mount; to go over, pass over, surpass, exceed, traverse; texsuperōto excel, surpass, exceed; to overpower; to overcomemigrōto migrate, depart to another place, change residence, move; to go away, change; to carry off, transporttrānsgrediorto go beyond, exceed; to step beyond, across or over, climb or pass over, cross; to go over to another party, desertfidēsfaith; belief (belief without empirical evidence, direct experience, or observation); reliance (act of relying on or truVelleiusof or pertaining to the gens Velleia.
The English word exceed itself goes back to Latin cēdō, through excēdō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
exceed
excedere (not till Livy, in this sense; e.g. excedere modum, to exceed the bounds of moderation; fidem, to exceed credibility): egredi (to go beyond; e.g., fortunam hominis, Velleius; modum, Quint.; altitudinem alicujus rei, Tac., quintum annum, Quint.; not Cic., or Caes. in this sense): transire (e.g., fines alicujus rei; modum, etc., Cic.): transilire (leap over, † munera modici Liberi, Hor.): superare: exsuperare (surpass, aliquid and aliquem aliqua re, especially in physical or moral excellencies; aliquem constantia et gravitate, etc.; exsuperare, not Ciceronian in this sense): supra aliquid esse (to be above or beyond it): migrare (to depart from, jus, quae pertinent ad veritatem, etc.): transgredi (mensuram, Plin. duodevicesimum annum, Velleius): aliquid majus est quam aliquid (e.g., lest his liberality should exceed his means, ne benignitas major sit, quam facultas). To exceed the bounds, etc., of anything, finem et modum transire; finem alicujus rei transire (Cic.); modum egredi or (Liv.) excedere; ultra modum egredi: to exceed the limits I have prescribed for myself, extra hos cancellos egredi, quos mini ipse circumdedi (Cic.): to exceed one’s orders, egredi extra praeceptum: the outlay exceeds the profit, sumptus superat fructum; impendia exsuperant reditum: the elegance of Caes.’s Commentaries exceeds the must elaborately finished compositions of other authors, nihil tam operose ab aliis est perfectum, quod non elegantia commentariorum [Caesaris] superetur (Hirt., prooem., B.G., 8). ☞ “Nothing can exceed anything,” is often translated by aliquid tantum est, ut nihil supra possit (e.g., Pisonis - amor in omnes nos tantus est, ut nihil supra possit, Cic.). Nothing can exceed the accuracy with well I finished those dialogues, eos (dialogos) confeci - ita accurate, ut nihil posset supra: with such a modest, such a beautiful countenance, that nothing could exceed it, vultu adeo modesto, adeo venusto, ut nihil supra (Terentianus): the number of the killed exceeded 20, 000, caesa - supra millia viginti (Liv.): the interest exceeds the principal, usurae mergunt sortem (Liv.): to exceed belief, supra humanam fidem esse; fidem excedere (Liv.): the degree in which he could endure hunger, etc., exceeds belief, patiens inediae, supra quam cuiquam credibile est (Sall.): to exceed the power of man, supra humanas or hominis vires esse.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for exceed?
- The usual Latin words for “exceed” are excēdō, ēgredior, trānseō; also trānsiliō, superō, exsuperō. 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.