English → Latin
“procrastinate” in Latin
differōto carry different ways, spread, scatter, disperse, separate; to distract, disquiet or disturb someone; confound; to sprprōferōto bring out, bring forth; to make known, produce in public, publish, reveal; to appear, show oneselfprōlātōto lengthen, extend, enlarge; to prolong
The English word procrastinate itself goes back to Latin crās, through prōcrastinātus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
procrastinate
Transitively, differre (to put off to a more convenient time, to defer): aliquid procrastinare (to put off from day to day): aliquid differre in crastinum, aliquid in posterum diem conferre (to put off until the following day): in aliud tempus differre, proferre, or rejicere (to put off until some other time). Intransitively, diem ex die ducere, or prolatare. Vid: also, DELAY, v.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for procrastinate?
- The usual Latin words for “procrastinate” are differō, prōferō, prōlātō. 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.