English → Latin
“exemption” in Latin
immūnitāsfreedom or exemption from taxes or public service; immunityvacātiōfreedom, exemption, immunity (from service); privilegemūnusa service, office, employment; a burden, duty, obligation; a service, favormalusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, mlaborwork; labor, toil, exertion; hardship, trouble, fatigue, suffering, drudgery, distress
The English word exemption itself goes back to Latin ex, through exemptiō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
exemption
immunitas (general term, rei or a re; muneris, omnium rerum; malorum, Lampr., Commod., 14; a tributis, Suet.): vacatio (rei or a re, especially militiae; also sumtus, laboris, rerum omnium, a causis, all Cic.; ab belli administratione, Liv.). To grant anybody an exemption, [Vid: To EXEMPT]: ☞ with vacatio, the number of years stands in the genitive; e.g., quinquennii vacatio militiae. To decree to anybody an exemption from military service for five years, alicui quinquennii militiae vacationem decernere (Liv.). It is false that they paid for an exemption, falsum est ob vacationem pretium datum (Cic.): to pray for an exemption, deprecari vacationem: to enjoy an exemption from anything, vacationem or immunitatem rei habere: they alone enjoy an exemption from the payment of tribute, from military service, from every public burden, neque tributa una cum reliquis pendunt; militiae vacationem omniumque rerum habent immunitatem. More under To EXEMPT.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for exemption?
- The usual Latin words for “exemption” are immūnitās, vacātiō, mūnus; also malus, labor. 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.