English → Latin
“implication” in Latin
implicātiōentanglement; involvementnervusa cord, string, thong or wire; the leather with which shields were covered; a fiber
The English word implication itself goes back to Latin plicō, through implicationem.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
implication
Entanglement, implicatio (e.g., nervorum).
An implied consequence; a tacit inference, etc., by circumlocution. By implication, implicite et abscondite (opposed to patentius et expeditius, Cic.; but this implies the necessity of disentangling, as it were, the implied fact or consequence): quodammodo tacite (silently, as it were; not by an explicit statement). The law itself, by implication, gives him the right of defending, etc., quodammodo tacite dat ipsa lex potestatem defendendi (Cic., Mil., 4, 11).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for implication?
- The usual Latin words for “implication” are implicātiō, nervus. 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.