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“fulfill” in Latin

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

fulfill
implere: explere: ad effectum adducere (to carry it into act; e.g., a plan): respondere, satisfacere alicui rei (to answer; e.g., anybody’s expectation, to perform): To fulfill a duty, officium facere, praestare, exsequi; officio fungi; officio suo non deesse; officio satisfacere (officium explere and officii partes implere, seldom, and never in Cic.): to fulfill every duty, nullam partem officii deserere; toward anybody, nullum munus officii cuipiam reliquum facere: to fulfill a plan, ad effectum consilii pervenire (Cic.), or aliquid ad effectum adducere (Liv.; opposed to spe concipere, Liv., 33, 33, fin.): to fulfill a command, imperium observare; imperato satisfacere; punctually, imperium diligenter exsequi: to fulfill a law, legem servare: to fulfill an agreement, pacto stare: to fulfill a promise, fidem persolvere; promissum praestare; fidem suam liberare: he has not fulfilled his promise, non exsolvit, quod promiserat: to fulfill our promises to the state, quae reipublicae polliciti sumus (or simus) exitu praestare (Planc. ap. Cic., Fam., 10, 8, 3): to fulfill anybody’s desires, optata alicujus explere; alicujus optatis respondere; voluntati alicujus obtemperare; alicui morem gerere (to comply with or suit one’s self to his ways); anybody’s desires, spem implere or explere: may Heaven fulfill your desires! dii tibi dent, quae optes! dii dent, quae velis! your prayers! tibi dii, quaecumque preceris! to be fulfilled; i. e., to have the expected result, evenire; evadere (e.g., dreams are fulfilled, somnia or quae somniavimus, evadunt). Anybody’s prophecy is fulfilled, aliquis non falsus vates fuit; ab aliquo praedictum est fore eos eventus rerum, qui acciderunt: to fulfill anybody’s vows, vota ad bonos exitus ducere (of the god who grants the request); votum solvere, dissolvere (of the person who pays his vow). To fulfill his destiny, fata implere (Liv., 1, 7).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for fulfill?
The usual Latin words for “fulfill” are impleō, expleō, respondeō; also praestō, exsequor. 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.