English → Latin
“infer” in Latin
colligōto gather, draw, bring or collect (together), assemble, pick up; contract, draw up, compress, concentrate; harvest; to mconclūdōto conclude, finish; to define; to shut up, confine, containefficiōto make out or work out; effect, execute, complete, accomplish, make, form, compose; to cause to occur, to bring about, cōnficiōto prepare, accomplish, complete, execute; settle, close a bargain; traverse; to produce, cause, bring about, effect, se
The English word infer itself goes back to Latin ferō, through inferō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
infer
colligere: concludere (to gather, draw a conclusion): efficere: conficere (to establish anything as a necessary consequence); from anything, ex aliqua re. Hence it may be inferred, ex quo effici cogique potest, etc.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for infer?
- The usual Latin words for “infer” are colligō, conclūdō, efficiō; also cōnficiō. 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.