English → Latin
“incorporate” in Latin
adiungōto add, join, attach, append, annex or bind to (something); to apply to, direct to (mentally); to harness, yokeattribuōto associate; to add or join to; to annexcontribuōto put together, combine, join in one, unite; to attach (a township, state, ruler, etc.) for political or administrativeadmisceōto mix or mingle with, in or together, admix, combine, add to, blend; to involve or entangle in something; to interfere immisceōto mix in, blend, intermix, intermingle; to cling to; to join, unite or associate with; mingle (amongst)īnserōto introduce into; to insert; to graft on; to implantcōnstituōto place, put, locate, lay; to set up, establish, constitute, found; to build, erect, construct
The English word incorporate itself goes back to Latin corporō, through incorporātus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
incorporate
adjungere: adjicere (with dative; to join anything to something else): attribuere (with dative); contribuere (with dative, or in and accusative, or cum and ablative; to place it to something else, as a part of it): admiscere: immiscere (with dative; to mix one thing up with another): inserere (to insert; e.g., anybody into a family, a state, etc., aliquem familiae, numero civium, etc.; also, anything in a book, aliquid libro). To incorporate with any country, terrae adjungere, attribuere; any country into a kingdom, terram in provinciam redigere: to be incorporated into a city, contribui in urbem; with the Oscenses, contribui cum Oscensibus: to incorporate the new recruits with the veterans, immiscere tirones veteribus militibus; the cohorts into his army, cohortes exercitui suo adjungere.
To form into a corporate body, collegium instituere or constituere: to be admitted as an incorporated member, in societatem ascribi or recipi.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for incorporate?
- The usual Latin words for “incorporate” are adiungō, attribuō, contribuō; also admisceō, immisceō, īnserō. 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.