English → Latin
“preserve” in Latin
cōnservōto conserve, to preserve, to save, to guard, to protect; to maintain (i.e., uphold)servōto maintain, keep; to protect, save, keep, guard, safeguard, watch over; to give heed to, pay attention to; watch, obsersustineōto hold up or upright, uphold, support, sustain; to keep up, bear up, tolerate; to hold or keep back or in, stay, check,sustentōto uphold, support, prop or sustain, maintain; to maintain or preserve by food, money, or other means; to keep in check,tueorto look or gaze at, behold, watch, view; to care for, guard, defend, protect, support, compensate or make up for; to uphalōto feed, to nourish, to nurture; to cultivate, to raise, to rear, etc. (as a child, an animal, etc.); to cause (a thing)condiōto season, spice, make savory; to embalm; to cultivate, temper
The English word preserve itself goes back to Latin servus, through prae.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
preserve
conservare: servare (e.g., rem familiarem): sustinere: sustentare (e.g., one’s health): tueri (to watch, to look to anything, to keep in repair). (The words are found in this connection and order.) tueri et conservare: alere (by nursing or nourishing; then in general). (The words are found in this connection and order.) alere et sustentare; sustentare et alere. To preserve one’s health, valetudinem tueri: to preserve anybody’s life, aliquem (integrum) conservare: alicui saluti esse; salutis auctorem esse alicui (general term for saving one’s life); alicui sanitatem restituere (as a physician).
Of fruit, condire; *saccharum incoquere alicui rei (after Plin., 34, 17, 48): *saccharo condire.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for preserve?
- The usual Latin words for “preserve” are cōnservō, servō, sustineō; also sustentō, tueor, alō. 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.