English → Latin
“plan” in Latin
speciēsseeing, view, look; spectacle, sight; external appearance, looks; general outline or shapefōrmaform; figure, shape, appearance; fine form; beauty; outline, plan, designimāgōimage, imitation, likeness, statue, representation; ancestral image; ghost, apparitiondēsignātiōa designating, describing, marking out, specification; a disposition, arrangementdēscrīptiōdescription; diagram, plan; transcript, copydēfōrmātiōdeforming, defacing, disfigurementcōnsiliumplan, intention, design, purpose; counsel, advice; determination, resolve, resolutioncōgitātiōthinking, meditation, reflection; thought; reasoningprōpōnōto set forth, to put forth, to lay out; to expose to view, display; to make knownincipiōto begin, to commence
The English word plan itself goes back to Latin plānus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
plan s.
Design (of a building), species: forma: imago: designatio: descriptio: deformatio (general terms): operis futuri figura (Vitr., 1, 2, in definition of orthographia, elevation): ground-plan, ichnographia: to sketch or draw a plan, operis speciem deformare; formam or imaginem operis delineare: to build according to a plan, perficere opus ad propositum deformationis: he exhibited various plans of baths drawn on parchment, ostendebat depictas in membranulis varias species balnearum.
(In the mind)(In the mind), consilium, consilium institutum (as a result of deliberation): cogitatio (a thought): propositum (a purpose): inceptum (a beginning): ratio (implying a calculation of the mode of proceeding and the results): descriptio (a sketch, in which each particular is put in its proper place): ordo (the order in which everything is to be done): the plan of an operation, rei agendae ordo: the plan of a campaign or war, totius belli ratio: a settled plan, ratio stabilis ac firma: without plan, nullo consilio; nulla ratione: to lay down a plan, instituere, or describere, rationem alicujus rei: to do anything according to a plan, aliquid ad rationem dirigere; modo ac ratione aliquid facere: to form a plan, consilium capere, or inire, aliquid faciendi, or with the infinitive, or ut (to design); in animum inducere, or consrituere, with an infinitive, or ut (to make up one’s mind, intend); consilium capere or inire de re: to pursue a plan, rationem alicujus rei insistere: to give up or desist from a plan, rationem omittere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for plan?
- The usual Latin words for “plan” are speciēs, fōrma, imāgō; also dēsignātiō, dēscrīptiō, dēfōrmātiō. 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.