English → Latin
“put up” in Latin
exagitōto set in motion; to drive out or away; to stir up, shake up, disturbexcitōto call forth: to rouse, awaken, summon; to bring forth: to raise, build; to bring out: to encourage, revive, excite, stmūnusa service, office, employment; a burden, duty, obligation; a service, favormagistrātusa magistrate, official; a magisterial office, civil office, magistracyambiōto round, go round, pass around, skirt; to surround, encircle; to solicit for votes, campaign, canvassPhaedrusPhaedrus (an Athenian aristocrat, friend of Socrates); Phaedrus (a Latin fabulist)prōpōnōto set forth, to put forth, to lay out; to expose to view, display; to make known
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
put up
To start (an animal), feram excutere cubili (Plin., Pan.); excire e cubili (Liv.); bestiam excitare (Cic.); (leporem) exagitare (Ov.); (cervum nemorosis latibulis) excitare (Phaedrus).
To expose publicly for sale, aliquid venale proponere, or simply proponere.
To offer one’s self as a candidate, munus, magistratum, petete; munus rogare, ambire: to put up for, ambire, petere, expetere; exposcere, orare, aliquid.
To build, erect, Vid: PUT UP AT, devertere, deverti, deversari; with anyone, ad or apud aliquem; anywhere, ad or in locum. ☞ Divertere can be used only of several persons, who separate and go one to one place, one to another. Vid: Goerenz., Cic., Fin., 5, 2, 5, p. 534.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for put up?
- The usual Latin words for “put up” are exagitō, excitō, mūnus; also magistrātus, ambiō, Phaedrus. 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.