English → Latin
“interpolate” in Latin
corrumpōto pervert, corrupt, deprave or infect; to gain to oneself by gifts, etc.; bribe; to spoil or rotvitiōto vitiate, make faulty, spoil, taint, corrupt, damage; to violate sexually; to falsify, corrupt (tamper with)interpolōto give a new form, shape, or appearance; to polish, furbish, dress up; to alter, falsify, insert texttrānscrībōto transfer in writing, copy off, transcribe; to alter, forge, falsify; to assign, convey, transferfalsusdeceived, tricked, cheated, disappointed, having been deceived; mistaken, having been mistaken, having deceived myself; interlinōto daub, besmear or anoint between; to falsify by erasingmūtōto move, remove; to alter, change, modify, transform; to vary, diversify
The English word interpolate itself goes back to Latin interpolō, through interpolātus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
interpolate
corrumpere: vitiare (general terms: for to falsify). (The words are found in this connection and order.) corrumpere atque interlinere (interlinere = to rub out words from a waxen tablet, and insert others; hence does not suit our method of writing): interpolare (PROP. = “to fashion anew,” “to give another form to”: in the sense of “interpolating,” it implies the doing it so as to avoid detection, not to let the changes or additions betray themselves by their appearance; semper aliquid demendo, mutando, curando no litura appareat, interpolando; Cic., Verr., 2, 1, 61): transcribere is to falsify in transcription: *verbis alienis corrumpere, vitiare; *falsa or aliena verba inculcare (of added words). To interpolate documents, tabulas corrumpere or vitiare; tabulas interpolare, or corrumpere atque interlinere, or interpolare (with the distinctions above given).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for interpolate?
- The usual Latin words for “interpolate” are corrumpō, vitiō, interpolō; also trānscrībō, falsus, interlinō. 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.