English → Latin
“rebuild” in Latin
restituōto replace, restore, reinstate, re-establish; to rebuild, revive; to restitutereficiōto make again, make anew; remake, renew, rebuild, reconstruct; to restore, repair, fix, refit; to reappoint, re-electrenovōto renew, restore or revive; to retouch, change, alterresurgōto rise again; to resurrect
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
rebuild
aedificare aliquid totum denuo (to build; e.g., a house, again entirely, or from the foundations: ☞ reaedificare is found only in ecclesiastical Latin: in Cic., Att., 6, 8, extr., and Liv., 5, 53, 7, all good editions read aedificare): de integro condere (to build afresh; e.g., a town that had been destroyed): restituere, reficere: renovare (to restore, repair; ☞ reparare is not found in good prose in this sense). to rebuild towns and villages, oppida vicosque restituere: the city was rebuilt in the next age after it had been destroyed, urbs ea aetate, quae excidium sequuta est, resurrexit.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for rebuild?
- The usual Latin words for “rebuild” are restituō, reficiō, renovō; also resurgō. 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.