English → Latin
“lend” in Latin
commodōto lend or hire; to provide or bestow; to adapt or accommodateaccommodōto fit or adapt something to something else, lay, put or hang on, attach; prepare (for a use), provide; to adjust, adapttrādōto hand over, give up, deliver, transmit, surrender; impart; entrust, confide; to leave behind, bequeath; to give up or mūtuusborrowed, lent; in return, in exchange, mutual, reciprocal
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
lend
mutuum (☞ not mutuo) dare (to grant a loan, the value of which is to be returned, as a matter of business; e.g., money, corn): commodare: accommodare (to oblige with the use of anything): aliquid alicui utendum dare or tradere (to allow him the use of it): credere alicui aliquid (to trust him with it; to give him money as a deposit, the restoration of which on demand is confidently expected). To lend money on interest, credere alicui pecuniam: dare alicui pecuniam fenori: pecuniam apud aliquem occupare (with or without fenore [Vid: INTEREST]: to lend money on a note of hand, per syngrapham alicui pecuniam credere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for lend?
- The usual Latin words for “lend” are commodō, accommodō, trādō; also mūtuus. 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.