English → Latin
“rate” in Latin
pretiumworth, price, value, cost; pay, hire, wage; rewardcēnseōto give an opinion; to think, suppose or judge; to recommend, advisemodusmeasure; bound, limit, end; manner (of doing or being arranged), way (of doing or being arranged), methodratiōreason, reasoning, explanation, ground, motive, rationality, rationale, purpose; calculation, account, accounting, reckoindicātiōThe act of indicating, setting or rating the valuation of something; a valuation.; A value, price, rate.vectīgaltax, tribute, (public) revenue; windfall, profit, (private) revenue
The English word rate itself goes back to Latin reor, through rata.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
rate s.
Price, value, pretium. A fixing of a rate, indicatio (Plaut.).
Valuation of property for the purpose of taxation, census: money paid as a tax, etc., census; vectigal [Vid: TAX]: rate-payer, homo vectigalis.
Manner, modus; ratio: at this rate, in hunc modum.
rate v.
To estimate, Vid:
To tax property, etc., censere [Vid: TAX].
To chide; Vid: CHIDE.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for rate?
- The usual Latin words for “rate” are pretium, cēnseō, modus; also ratiō, indicātiō, vectīgal. 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.