English → Latin
“repair” in Latin
refectiōremaking; restoration, repair; refreshment, recreationtueorto look or gaze at, behold, watch, view; to care for, guard, defend, protect, support, compensate or make up for; to uphtegōto cover; to clothe; to conceal, hide, protectviaroad, street, path; highway; way, method, manner, modecōnservōto conserve, to preserve, to save, to guard, to protect; to maintain (i.e., uphold)reficiōto make again, make anew; remake, renew, rebuild, reconstruct; to restore, repair, fix, refit; to reappoint, re-electrenovōto renew, restore or revive; to retouch, change, altersarciōto patch, botch, mend, repair, restore; to make amends, recompenseresarciōto patch or mend again; to repair or restoreexpleōto fill up, occupy completely; to appease, satisfy, placate the thirst, satiate the hunger; to supply, repair, compensat
The English word repair itself goes back to Latin parō, through reparō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
repair s.
refectio. To need repair, refectionem desiderare: to keep in repair, tueri (tecta, or sarta tecta aedium; vias): in good repair, sartus tectus: to keep a house in repair, sarta tecta aedium tueri; domum sartam ac tectam. conservare. To examine whether a house be in good repair, exigere sarta tecta aedium.
repair v.
Transitively, To mend, reficere: renovare (to restore to its former state; ☞ avoid reparare in this sense): in melius restituere (to put in a better state, to improve): sarcire, resarcire, recoucinnare (e.g., clothes, a house; Vid: Cic., Qu. Fr., 2, 6, 3, tribus locis aedifico, reliqua reconcinno, I am having them repaired: emendare is = to correct, improve anything written, and retractare, to look through again and correct).
To supply, make good (a loss), explere: supplere (to supply, fill up): pensare: compensare; by anything, aliquid aliqua re or cum re (to make equal, balance): sarcire, resarcire (Suet., Plin.): reconcinnare, reficere, reparare, restituere (to restore): to repair a loss, damnum explere, pensare, compensare, sarcire, restituere; detrimentum sarcire, reconcinnare; quod amisi, reparo; quae amissa sunt, reficere.
Intransitively, To betake one’s self, resort to a place, se conferre aliquo: petere, capessere locum (to make a place the end of one’s journey): cencedere aliquo (to return to a place): ire, proficisci aliquo (to travel to a place): to repair to anybody, se conferre, accedere ad aliquem; adire, convenire aliquem (especially in order to speck with him): to repair in great numbers to a place, in locum confluere; frequently, frequentare locum. He repaired to Argos (in order to dwell there), Argos habitatum concessit: to repair to the interior of the kingdom, petere interiora regni: to repair to a monastery, *capessere monasterium; *capessere vitam monachorum: to repair to a place of safety, in tutum cedere or se recipere; in portum se conferre.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for repair?
- The usual Latin words for “repair” are refectiō, tueor, tegō; also via, cōnservō, reficiō. 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.