English → Latin
“requite” in Latin
referōto bear, bring, drive, or carry back, off, or away; to give back, give up, return, restore, pay back, repay, render, payreddōto give back, return, restore; to give up, hand over, deliver, render, provide, assign; to surrender, relinquish, deliveremūnerōto reward, recompense, remuneratepēnsōto ponder, consider; to weigh, counterbalance; to pay for, purchasedamnumdamage, injury; loss, disadvantage; fine, mulct, penalty
The English word requite itself goes back to Latin quiēs, through quiētus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
requite
referre: reddere (general term): gratiam referre alicui, or parem gratiam referre alicui (Vid: Bentl., Ter., Eun., 4, 4, 51; in a good or a bad sense): remunerari (in a good sense): pensare or compensare aliquid aliqua re (to make even; e.g., benefactions by benefactions, beneficia beneficiis: merits by benefactions, merita beneficiis: ☞ recompensare is to be avoided): rependere aliquid aliqua re (litterally, to weigh the one against the other; figuratively, to set off, make up; e.g., damnum, by anything, aliqua re): par pari referre (to render like for like). To requite anybody’s love, aliquem redamare: to requite kindnesses, beneficiis respondere or vicem exsolvere: I cannot requite your services, tantum tibi debeo, quantum solvere difficile est: to requite anything badly, malam gratiam referre.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for requite?
- The usual Latin words for “requite” are referō, reddō, remūnerō; also pēnsō, damnum. 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.