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“rent” in Latin
scindōto cut, tear; to rend or break asunder; carve; split, divide or separate by force; to tear off one's travelling cloak; ufruorto enjoy; to derive pleasure from; to engage (in)reditusa returning, turning back, going back; return; a revolution, circuit, return; a harvest, yieldvectīgaltax, tribute, (public) revenue; windfall, profit, (private) revenuemercēspay, wages, reward; revenue, income; chastisement, punishment, penaltyhabitātiōAn inhabiting, dwelling.; A habitation, residence, dwelling; lodging.; The rent (for a dwelling).habitōto reside, inhabit, remain, dwell, live; to lingercondūcōto lead, bring or draw together; assemble, collect; to connect, join, unite; close up; coagulate; to hire, rent, employ,hortusgardendomushouse, home (the building where a person lives); any dwelling-place or abode (of people or animals); the place of one's
The English word rent itself goes back to Latin dō, through rendita.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
rent s.
(from REND)(from REND), scissura: scissum.
rent s.
Annual payment (for land, etc.), fructus: reditus (received): vectigal (received or paid): pretium conducti (paid): merces (the payment; annua merces, if calculated yearly): house-rent, merces habitationis: habitatio. What rent does he pay? quanti habitat? to give a high rent, magni habitare: he pays the rent of thirty thousand ases, triginta millibus (understand aeris) habitat: to remit, return the house-rent, conductoribus annuam habitationem remittere, or annuam mercedem habitationis donare: rent day, *dies vectigalis: rent roll, *index, codex, vectigalis.
rent v.
conducere (to take on hire; e.g., hortum, domum): mercede conducere. A rented house, domus (mercede) conducta: to live in a rented house, habitare in conducto: I have rented a place for him in my neighborhood, huic ego locum in proximo conduxi (Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for rent?
- The usual Latin words for “rent” are scindō, fruor, reditus; also vectīgal, mercēs, habitātiō. 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.