“ready” in Latin

Preferred, paratus (having will and power to, etc., ad aliquid, or the infinitive): promtus (close at hand; quick and willing to, etc., ad aliquid, in aliquid, or in aliqua re: ☞ with the dative, past-Augustan). (The words are found in this connection and order.) promtus et paratus; expeditus (not hindered, active). Ready to do anything, paratus facere aliquid or ad aliquid faciendum: to be ready, ad manum esse; praesto adesse, for anything, ad aliquid: to have ready, aliquid expedire (e.g., arma): to make ready, parare, instruere aliquid [Vid: RREPARE]: to keep one’s self ready, paratum promptumque esse.

Well furnished or equipped, able to act promptly, instructus: paratus: expeditus (freed from hindrances). Ready for sea, ad navigandum paratus: paratus ad navigandum atque ab omnibus rebus instructus: paratus instructusque remigio. To get a vessel ready for sea, navem aptare ad enrsum, or aptare velis (†), or parare instruereque remigio; navigium instruere armamentis ministrisque.

A ready speaker, orator semper ad dicendum expeditus: to make omself ready for anything, se parare, se expedire ad aliquid; parare, comparare, instruere aliquid: to get ready for a tourney, parare iter; parare proficisci; se comparare ad iter, for the next day, in diem posterum: Hence (a) Able to accomplish anything easily and quickly, paratus; promtus: ready with the fist, manu promtus; manu fortis. Ready disputants, promti ad disputandum homines (Cic.): that has a ready tongue, promtus lingua; facundus [Vid: ELOQUENT]: in a ready manner, parate (e.g., dicere). (b) Willing, libens (the proper word): alacer ad aliquid (active): promtus ad aliquid (at hand). (The words are found in this connection and order.) alacer et promtus ad aliquid: proclivis ad aliquid (inclined). To be ready to do anything, promto ad aliquid faciendum esse animo. (c) (of things) Completed, finished, perfectus: absolutus. To make anything ready, perficere; conficere; absolvere; (The words are found in this connection and order.) conficere et absolvere. It is ready, rem absolvi (I have completed it).

Immediate (of money): ready money, pecunia praesens or numerata; nummi praesentes or numerati; also simply nummus (especially if in opposition; e.g., praedia locare non nummo, sed partibus): payment in ready money, repraesentatio, with or without pecuniae (☞ Cic., Att., 12, 29 and 31; ad Div. 15, 24, 3): to have ready money, nummos numeratos habere in suis nummis versari: to pay ready money, praesenti pecunia or numerato solvere; pecuniam repraesentare (Vid: Herzog, Caes., B.G., 1, 40); to anybody, in pecunia alicui satisfacere; for anything, praesentibus nummis emere aliquid: to sell for ready money, praesenti pecunia vendere; die oculata vendere (Prov. ap. Rlautus, Pseud., 1, 3, 67): he pays ready money for everything, semper Graeca fide mercatur (Plaut., Asin., 1, 3, 47). To have a good deal of ready money about him, secum aliquantum nummorum ferre (Cic., Invent., 2, 4, 14).

Ready sale, *facilis et expedita venditio mercium: to find a ready sale, facile vendi: that finds a ready sale, vendibilis.