English → Latin
“issue” in Latin
prōfluviumA flowing forth; a discharge; fluxprofūsiōa pouring out; libation; prodigalityēruptiōan eruption; outburst; onrush, onslaughtprōnūntiātiōproclamation, declaration; pronunciation, speech; manner, deliveryprōmulgātiōproclamation, promulgationexeōto exit, depart, go forth, come forth; to avoid, evade; to escapeēventusevent, occurrence, reality; outcome, consequence, resultfīnisend; limit, border, bound boundary, frontier; boundaries, bounds, frontiers; by extension, territory, region, landseffluōto flow or run forth or out; escape; to go out, issue forth; to vanish, disappear, melt awayēmānōto flow out; arise or emanate (from); to become known
The English word issue itself goes back to Latin eō, through exeō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
issue
Act of flowing out, fluxio (act of flowing, Cic.): profluvium (poetical and post-Augustan): profusio (post-Augustan): eruptio (medical technical term [as concrete term] for any discharge of morbid matter, Plin.). An issue of blood, profusio sanguinis (Cels.); profluvium sanguinis (Lucr., Col.); fluxio sanguinis (Plin.).
An artificial issue (chirurgeneral technical term), *fonticulus. To open an issue, *fonticulum aperire, quo corruptus humor exeat; or *fonticulo aperto evocare corruptum humorem (evocare corruptum humorem, Cels.).
The sending forth an order, etc., pronunciatio (Caes., B.C., 2, 25, fin.: of course, it must be one that is proclaimed): promulgatio (publication, etc.).
Event, exitus: eventus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) exitus eventusque: eventus atque exitus [Vid: EVENT]: finis (the end).
Act of issuing money, provisions, etc. Issue of money, erogatio pecuniae (Vid: erogare in ISSUE), or by circumlocution. To diminish the issues of corn, frumentum parce et paullatim metiri (Caes., B.G., 7, 71).
Offspring, Vid:
issue v.
INTRANS., To flow forth, effluere: emanare: profluere (forth): diffluere (in different directions): prosilire: emicare (mostly poetical; to gush forth, of blood, etc.).
To go forth or out, exire: egredi: excēdere. A work has issued from the press, liber emissus est [Vid: To Go]. Troops issued from the town, copiae, etc., ex oppido eruptionem fecerunt (Caes.): erumpere (to burst forth; of troops; e.g., from the camp, ex castris, Caes.).
End (intrans), Vid:
TRANS., emittere (to send forth; e.g., a book). To issue orders, edere mandata (Liv.); an edict, edictum proponere, or simply edicere (with ut, ne): to issue the corn in smaller rations, frumentum parcius metiri (Caes.): to issue circular letters, litteras circum (with accusative of persons to whom they are sent) dimittere: to issue money, erogare pecuniam (i. e., to take it from the treasury upon, an application of the people, etc., and pay it away for public works, etc.). A coinage has been issued, and is in general circulation, pecunia in communem usum venit.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for issue?
- The usual Latin words for “issue” are prōfluvium, profūsiō, ēruptiō; also prōnūntiātiō, prōmulgātiō, exeō. 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.