English → Latin
“pardon” in Latin
veniaindulgence, kindness (i.e., lenient treatment); mercy, grace, favour; pardondēprecātiōa warding off or averting by prayer; deprecation, invocation; imprecationignōscōto forgive, pardon, excuse, overlook, to take no notice of (with dative)concēdōto depart, retire or withdraw, come away, come, go away; to disappear or vanish; to relinquish, concede, relent, subsidecondōnōto present, give, deliver, surrender, bring as an offering; to sacrifice or surrender as an offering; to forgive, pardon
The English word pardon itself goes back to Latin dōnō, through perdono.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
pardon s.
venia; remissio poenae: to beg pardon, veniam ab aliquo petere; petere ut mihi ignoscatur; deprecari aliquid ab aliquo (of or from anyone): postulare ut delicto ignoscatur; erroris veniam petere (for a fault): postulare ut delicto ignoscat aliquis (for anyone): a begging of pardon, deprecatio (in defence of anything wrong): ignoscendi postulatio (prayer for forgiveness): to grant pardon; Vid. PARDON, v.
pardon v.
ignoscere (to overlook a fault; between equals): concedere (not to be severe or strict): condonare (as it were, to make a present of anything), alicui aliquid; veniam dare alicui (of superiors; not to inflict punishment): veniam et impunitatem dare alicui; gratiam alicujus rei facere. Pardon me, ignoscas quaeso. ☞ “To pardon anybody his precipitate conduct, “, etc., should be, not ignoscere alicui festinationem (which is Ov., Liv.), but ignoscere alicujus festinationi: but “to pardon this, that,” etc., is ignoscere hoc, illud, id, etc. “Pardon my boldness in doing so and so,” is ignoscere quod hoc mihi sumo (Vid: Cic., Fam., 7, 5; 13, 51, Krebs).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for pardon?
- The usual Latin words for “pardon” are venia, dēprecātiō, ignōscō; also concēdō, condōnō. 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.