English → Latin
“facility” in Latin
facilitāsease, easiness, facility, readiness; willingness; affability, courteousness; levity, heedlessnessfacultāsability to do any thing easily, skill, capacity, power; means, resources; opportunity, chance
The English word facility itself goes back to Latin facilis, through facilitās.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
facility
facilitas (easiness, both objectively and with reference to the small amount of exertion necessary to accomplish the object; also = readiness of speech, a pleasing fluency, etc.; opposed to celeritas [ = an impetuous fluency], and loquendi tarditas, slow, sleepy delivery; eloquendi facultas is the readiness of the speaker; facultas, also = “easiness of temper,” mostly in a good sense, but also in a bad one, Suet.). [Vid. EASINESS, EASE.]
Facilities (for doing anything), opportunitas idonea (faciendi aliquid). To give anybody great facilities of doing anything, alicui potestatem, or copiam dare, or facere alicujus rei; alicui facultatem dare alicujus rei; alicui ansam dare, or praebere alicujus rei, or ad aliquid faciendum: to possess great facilities for or of, etc., potestas, or facultas, or copia alicujus rei mihi data or facta est; aditum habeo alicujus rei or faciendi aliquid.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for facility?
- The usual Latin words for “facility” are facilitās, facultās. 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.