English → Latin
“pacify” in Latin
mītigōto make soft, ripe, or tender; to mitigate, make mild, tame, pacifylēniōto soften, soothe; to mollify, assuage, appease, pacifypermulceōto touch or rub gently, stroke, caress; to soften; to charm, please, flatter, delightturbaturmoil, disorder, stir, disturbance, tumult, uproar, hubbub, commotion, trouble, confusion, disarray, brawl; mob, crowdgrexa group of smaller animals: a flock (of birds, sheep, etc.), a pack (of dogs, wolves, etc.), a swarm (of insects), etc.;molliōto soften, make soft, make calm, moderate, mitigate, mollify; to make unmanly or effeminateplācōto appease; to placate, pacify, assuage, soothe, calm, quiet; to reconcile
The English word pacify itself goes back to Latin pāx.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
pacify
To calm, tranquillize, aliquem or alicujus animum placare (to set at rest): mitigare (to mitigate): lenire or delinire (to assuage): permulcere (to appease by endearment, by gentle words). (The words are found in this connection and order.) alicujus animum lenire et placare, placare et mitigare. To pacify the anger of anyone, alicujus iram lenire, mollire, permulcere, placare, sedare: to pacify the multitude, multitudinem, plebem reprimere: to pacify a disturbance, seditionem lenire or sedare: to pacify pain, dolorem mitigare.
To appease, Vid: PACK, s. Bundle, sarcina, sarcinula (as a burden): fascis (general term): manipulus (such as may be carried in the hand).
Of hounds, *canum venaticorum turba.
Of men (contemptuously), turba; grex.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for pacify?
- The usual Latin words for “pacify” are mītigō, lēniō, permulceō; also turba, grex, molliō. 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.