English → Latin
“hire” in Latin
mercēspay, wages, reward; revenue, income; chastisement, punishment, penaltyannuusannual, yearly; lasting a yearvectīgaltax, tribute, (public) revenue; windfall, profit, (private) revenuecondūcōto lead, bring or draw together; assemble, collect; to connect, join, unite; close up; coagulate; to hire, rent, employ,pretiumworth, price, value, cost; pay, hire, wage; rewardmercēnāriushired for pay; mercenary
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
hire s.
merces; yearly, annua (for persons and things, as pay, wages for hire): vectigal (as the income of one who lets on hire).
hire v.
conducere, with or without mercede or pretio. Hired laborers, operae conductae or mercenariae.
To hire one’s self out, se or operam suam locare (Plaut.); to anybody, alicui; for any purpose, ad aliquam rem.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for hire?
- The usual Latin words for “hire” are mercēs, annuus, vectīgal; also condūcō, pretium, mercēnārius. 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.