English → Latin
“realize” in Latin
afficiōto cause someone to experience something; to visit, inflict, bestow; to treat, manage, handle; to influence, have an effcapiōto take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm; to take on, adopt; to hold, to contain
The English word realize itself goes back to Latin rēs, through reālis.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
realize
To effect, facere: afficere: perficere aliquid (Cic.): ad effectum adducere aliquid (Liv.). To realize one’s plans, consiliorum suorum exsecutorem esse. Not to be able to realize anything, non parem esse alicui rei exsequendae.
To place a notion before the mind as if it were a real thing, repraesentare aliquid (e.g., memoriam consulatus mei, Cic., Sest., 11, 26; imagines animo, Quint., 6, 2, 29): aliquem or aliquid oculis, or ante oculos proponere: or only aliquem or aliquid sibi proponere (to place it, as it were, before one’s eyes, that one may dwell upon the thoughts of it): imaginem rei absentis ita repraesentare animo, ut eam cernere oculis et praesentem habere videamus (Quint., 6, 2, 29).
To make money, pecunias facere or capere; by anything, ex aliqua re.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for realize?
- The usual Latin words for “realize” are afficiō, capiō. 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.