English → Latin
“persuade” in Latin
addūcōto lead, bring, draw or convey to or to oneself; to prompt, induce, cause; to persuade, moveindūcōto lead, bring or conduct in or into somewhere; to bring forward, exhibit, represent; to bring into or before a court
The English word persuade itself goes back to Latin suādeō, through persuādeō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
persuade
To induce by argument or fair words, persuadere alicui (to succeed in convincing or persuading: persuadere ut = to persuade anybody to do anything: with infinitive, or accusative and infinitive = to persuade or convince him that anything is so and so; i. e., to convince anybody of a fact or the truth of an assertion [an exception is Nep., Dion., 3]; it takes a simple accusative only of pronouns): aliquem perpellere, ut, etc. (to urge one to do a thing): aliquem impellere (to urge on), or adducere (to bring to), or inducere (to lead, induce) ad aliquid, or followed by ut: alicui auctorem esse, alicujus rei, or followed by ut (to cause one to do anything): commodis verbis delinire, ut, etc. (to talk over Auct., Argum. ad Plaut., Mil., v. 4). To be persuaded, persuasum habere, with accusative and infinitive. ☞ Persuasum habeo is much less common than mihi persuasum est, or mihi persuasi. With mihi persuasi only a pronoun can stand as the objective; hoc mihi persuasi. With persuasum habere the dative of the pronoun is extremely rare, the only passage being, sibi persuasum habebant (Caes., B.G., 3, 2, end). Hence avoid mihi persuasum habeo. To persuade anybody of anything, alicui aliquid or de aliqua re probare (Cic.; alicui aliquid credibile facere is modern Latin, though credibile aliquid facere is right, Krebs): to persuade anybody that, etc., persuadere alicui aliquid, or de aliqua re: I shall not be persuaded of this, hoc quidem non adducar, ut credam; non facile adducar (not inducar) ad credendum: I am not persuaded that, etc., non adducor or adducar (with accusative and infinitive, without any verb of believing).
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Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for persuade?
- The usual Latin words for “persuade” are addūcō, indūcō. 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.