English → Latin
“produce” in Latin
prōdūcōto lead or bring forth, forward or out; to conduct to; bring before, present; to draw or stretch out, lengthen, extendafferōto carry forth; to bring forth; conduct; to bring, bear, convey or carry information, report, announce, inform, publish,prōferōto bring out, bring forth; to make known, produce in public, publish, reveal; to appear, show oneselfmemorōto remind, bring to mind; to tell, say, speak of, narrate, utter, recount, relatecommemorōto recall; to remember; to mention, relate, recountlaudōto praise, laud, extol; to commend, honor; to eulogizecitōto cause to move, excite; to summon, invite, callferōto bear; to carry; to support, hold up; to suffer, tolerate, endure, bearefferōto bring, bear, carry, take out, forth, away; transport; to carry out (of the house) for burial, bear to the grave, buryfundōto pour out, shed; to melt, cast, found, make by smelting; to overthrow, overcome, rout, vanquish an enemy, rout, scatte
The English word produce itself goes back to Latin dūcō, through prōdūcō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
produce v.
To bring forward, producere (lead forward a person): afferre, proferre (bring forward): memorare, commemorare (make mention of): laudare (especially, to praise; not = to quote a passage): citare (to call forth; e.g., aliquem auctorem, as one’s authority; but rare in this sense). To produce witnesses, testes proferre, laudare, proferre, citare, excitare: testimony, afferre testimonium: a passage, locum afferre [Vid: CITE]: a reason, rationem, causam afferre; afferre cur with subjunctive (e.g., cur credam, afferre possum, Cic.): ☞ not producere, adducere, locum, rationem.
To yield (of trees, fields, etc.), ferre, efferre, proferre, fundere: effundere (of nature, the earth, a field, etc.; fund, and effundere = produce abundantly): to produce crops, ferre fruges, or ferre only; fructum afferre; efferre (especially of a field). [Vid: BEAR.]
To cause, afferre (to bring): facere: efficere (to cause): esse (with dative): parere (to beget; sorrow, weariness, sleep, etc.): creare (make, cause; danger, mistakes, pleasure, etc.): praestare (supply): to produce profit or pleasure, utilitatem or voluptatem afferre; usui or voluptati esse. For other phrases, Vid: the substantives.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for produce?
- The usual Latin words for “produce” are prōdūcō, afferō, prōferō; also memorō, commemorō, laudō. 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.