English → Latin
“project” in Latin
cōnsiliumplan, intention, design, purpose; counsel, advice; determination, resolve, resolutionmāchinacontrivance; war machine, military engine, siege engine; scaffoldmāchinātiōcontrivance; machine, engine; machination, artificecōnorto try, attemptineōto enter, go into; to begin; to have sexual intercourseagitōto act, behave, do, or make persistently or unremittingly; to put something in motion, drive, impel; drive by rowing, roprōmineōto stand or jut out; to project, overhang; to be prominent; to bend or reach out (for), extend (to)ēmineōto stand out, project, protrude; to be prominent, stand out in relief; to be or become conspicuous or prominent, stand oexstōto stand out or project; to be prominent or conspicuous; to existprōsiliōto leap, jump, rush or spring forth or up; to burst or break forth, start out, start up; to hasten
The English word project itself goes back to Latin iaciō, through prōiectus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
project s.
consilium: machina, machinatio, conatus (a secret, bad design). To form a project, consilium capere, inire; against anybody, concerning anything, contra aliquem, de aliqua re; also, consilium aliquid faciendi capere or agitare: to form secret projects, clandestinis consiliis operam dare; consilia clam inire: to form a project for anybody, consilii auctorem esse alicui: to adopt a project, consilium sequi: to kinder or defeat a project, consilium perimere or confringere; conatum infringere.
project v.
Intransitively, To jut out, prominere (to hang over in front; figuratively = to stretch out, extend; to, etc., in... usque): eminere (to jut out): exstare (to stand out; PROP.): projici, projectum esse (to be built out; e.g., in the sea; of a town, etc.): prosilire (to spring forth): procedere (to go forth or out): procurrere, excurrere, from anything, ab aliqua re, or into anything, in aliquid (to run forth, run out; e.g., into the sea, of a peninsula, etc).
Transitively, To form a project; Vid. PROJECT, s.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for project?
- The usual Latin words for “project” are cōnsilium, māchina, māchinātiō; also cōnor, ineō, agitō. 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.