What is the Latin word for reach?

The usual Latin words for “reach” are pertineō, porrigō, attingō; also patior, excurrō, prōcurrō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“reach” in Latin

pertineōto extend, stretch out, reach, matter; to belong, relate, pertain, have concern; to have a tendency to, tend to porrigōto stretch, spread out, extend; to offer, hold out attingōto come in contact with, touch; to assault; strike, attack; to touch, taste patiorto suffer, endure, tolerate; to allow, acquiesce, permit, submit; to exist, live excurrōto run out; to sally forth; to project, extend prōcurrōto run or rush forwards; to advance; to jut out praebeōto proffer, offer; to provide, grant, furnish, supply, service; to show, display suppeditōto be fully supplied; to be in abundance; to have in abundance contingōto touch on all sides, take hold of, come into contact with; to reach (by moving), attain to, come to, arrive at, meet w possumbe able to, can, may; in the 3rd person singular (pote est): it may be, it is possible; to have influence or efficacy, t

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

reach v.

Intransitively, (A) PROP., (1) To extend, stretch, pertinere: porrigi: attingere: patere (Cic.): excurrere; procurrere [SYN. in EXTEND]. (2) To attain by the hand or the body, attingere: contingere: To be able to reach with one’s hand, manu attingere, contingere, posse aliquid: I cannot reach so far, istum locum attingere, contingere nequeo; eo usque manus porrigere non possum. (B) Figuratively, (1) To overtake, assequi, consequi; adipisci (to arrive with exertion at a point; to reach at last; locum or aliquem). (2) To equal, consequi, assequi (to equal a person in any property or quality; assequi usually to attain to the quality or property itself): adaequare: exaequare (to attain to a property or quality). (The words are found in this connection and order.) exaequare et assequi; aequare (to equal a person in a property; rarely = attain a property). The heaps of arms reached the top of the walls, muri altitudinem acervi armorum adaequabant: to reach the number of anything, multitudinem alicujus rei assequi et exaequare: to endeavor to reach a person or thing, aliquem or aliquid imitari: not to be able to reach anybody (by imitating), aliquem imitando consequi non posse: to reach with words, or a description, oratione assequi; verbis aequare; dicendo aequare (to make a representation equal to the greatness of a subject, Plin., Ep., 8, 4, 3). (3) To come to a place, pervenire ad or in with an accusative (general term): attingere locum (to touch, approach): capere locum (to gain a place, especially from the sea to land; Vid: Herzog, Caes., B.G., 4, 26, extr.). To reach a harbor, portum capere; in portum pervenire, pervehi: to reach a very great age, ad summam senectutem pervenire: to reach the ears of anybody, ad alicujus aures pervenire; ab aliquo audiri.

Transitively, porrigere; praebere: suppeditare: suggerere alicui aliquid. To reach a hand, manum alicui porrigere, praebere.

reach s.

Power of attainment, by circumlocution with quod manu prehendi, quod contingi, potest (within grasp, PROP.): *quod adipisci queas; *quod obtineri potest (figuratively): captus (capacity).

Extent, space, Vid:

Part of a river between two windings, spatium: tractus.

A thrust, Vid.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for reach?: The usual Latin words for “reach” are pertineō, porrigō, attingō; also patior, excurrō, prōcurrō. 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.