“give” in Latin

dare (our “to give” in the widest acceptation of the word; hence = to grant, impart, allow, permit, present, offer, yield from itself, etc.; also as a mathematical technical term: a given line, data linea, Quint., 1, 10, 3): reddere (to give back, return; i. e., both to give up, e.g., a letter to anybody, and to give forth; e.g., a tone): tradere (to give up, give over, give into the hand): offerre (to offer to give without demand): porrigere (to stretch out, that the person receiving may take it): praebere (to hold toward, to extend; both denote the incomplete action of giving): tribuere (as the end of the action): impertire (to cause to take part, to impart): donare: dono dare (to present): solvere: persolvere: pendere (to pay): apponere (lo set on the table a dish, wine, etc.): afferre (to bring in addition; e.g., ornatum orationi): efficere (to bring forth, yield; e.g., ager efficit cum octavo; then as a technical term of arithmetic, our “to make”): esse: fieri (as an arithmetical technical term; Vid: To “MAKE, in arithmetic,” for examples of efficere, esse, and fieri): How much have you given for it? quanti rem emisti? how much do you give for your board, your lodging, your tuition? quanti cenas, habitas, doceris? to give a daughter in marriage to anybody, dare alicui aliquam uxorem, or nuptum, or in matrimonium: to give to another, tradere aliquam alii: to give forth, edere, mittere, emittere (e.g., a sound, scent, etc.); reddere (to return a sound, of a string which is touched); remittere (to suffer to proceed from itself; e.g., a tone, of a string; juice, etc., of fruit when pressed). It is not given to man, homini non datum, non concessum est: a thing that is not ours to give, *res, quae non est nostri arbitrii: give me leave to, etc., da mihi followed by an accusative with infinitive (or, after the Greek manner, with a dative and infinitive; Vid: Schmid. Hor., Ep., 1, 16, 61): to give anything up for lost, desperare de re: to give little for a thing (i. e., to value lightly), aliquid negligere, parum curare: to give nothing for anything (i. e., to disregard it), aliquid contemnere, spernere, nihili putare: what would I give! quidnam darem! to give anything for it, aliquid quantivis facere, aestimare; quovis pretio aliquid redimere velle: to give one’s self up [Vid: To SURRERNDER]: to give up, manus dare (to admit one’s self to be conquered, to yield; Vid: Herz, Caes., B.G., 5, 31): cedere (to give way): to give rise to [Vid: “to be the SOURCE of”]. To give one’s self to, etc. [Vid: To DEVOTE]: to give medicine to a patient, adhibere medicinam aegroto. MISCELLANEOUS PHRASES. To give anybody a blow, plagam alicui imponere, infligere, injicere (not dare): to give anybody permission, facere alicui potestatem (not dare): to give a vote, suffragium ferre or inire; sentence, an opinion, sententiam dicere or ferre: to give a party, dinner-party, facere cenam (not dare): to give anybody a subject to work on, ponere or proponere (not dare) alicui rem tractandam: to give a person a letter (of the bearer), reddere alicui epistolam or litteras (seldom dare, which is the act of the writer giving it to the tabellarius. Even Cic., however, once uses dedit, not reddidit, of the bearer; Att., 5, 4, 1): to give a person to drink, dare alicui bibere or potui: to give laws, leges scribere, constituere, condere (but leges dare is classical; e.g., leges damus liberis populis, Cic., Legg., 3, 2, 4): a circumstance gives anybody his name, aliquid facit nomen, cognomen alicui (Liv.): to give rise to a suspicion, facere suspicionem: to give pain to anybody, facere dolorem alicui: to give battle to anybody, proelium committere cum aliquo: to give anybody no time to breathe, aliquem respirare non sinere (IMPROP.): to give anybody trouble, negotium alicui facessere (Cic.), facere (Quint., 5, 12, 13): to give signals by beacons, facere significationem ignibus (Caes.): given (e.g., under my hand such a day or at such a place), datum or scriptum: given under my hand on the day of our march from Astura, haec scripsi proficiscens Astura (Cic.). To give in charge, alicui aliquid custodiendum or servandum dare; deponere aliquid apud aliquem (as a deposit). ☞ For phrases not found here, as GIVE BATTLE, PLACE, A KISS, THANKS, etc., Vid: the SUBST., ADV., or ADJ., with which “give” is used.

INTRANS., To yield to pressure, solvi (to be loosened): cedere (to yield): The sand “give’s under the feet,” sabulum vestigio cedit: not to give, resistere alicui rei (e.g., corpori; of a hard-stuffed mattress).

To yield, ground (before an enemy), pedem referre.

To become less or less intense, remittere: remitti (the proper word; of rain, fever, pain, etc.): minuere (☞ Herz., Caes., B.G., 3, 12): minui (to lessen): defervescere (to cool; of heat, passion, etc.): residere (to settle; of stormy passion, etc.): The frost is giving, glacies tepefacta mollitur.