English → Latin
“reserve” in Latin
servōto maintain, keep; to protect, save, keep, guard, safeguard, watch over; to give heed to, pay attention to; watch, obserreservōto reserve, retain, save; to keep or hold back or in reserve; to sparecōnservōto conserve, to preserve, to save, to guard, to protect; to maintain (i.e., uphold)repōnōto put back; to put back, return a bone to its proper place, to reduce a dislocation; to restoresēpōnōto put aside, banish; to pick out, select; to disregardcondōto put together; to build, establish; form, fashion; make, construct; to put away, store or treasure up; preserve; interrecondōto put away, stow away, hoard; to hide or concealretineōto keep or hold back, detain, restrain, retain, confine, contain; delay; to hold in check, repress, check, stop, stay; tcēlōto hide (something from someone), cover, keep a secret, concealoccultōto conceal, hide
The English word reserve itself goes back to Latin servus, through reservō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
reserve v.
To lay up, servare: reservare (to lay by or keep in store for a particular purpose, to refrain from using anything until a certain season or occasion occur): conservare (to keep in good order, let alone, refrain from injuring): reponere: seponere (to put aside for future use): condere: recondere (to lay by, or in store; e.g., fruit). (The words are found in this connection and order.) condere et reponere; reponere et recondere. To reserve for another time, in aliud tempus reservare or differre.
To keep back, retinere (PROP.), celare, occultare, tegere, dissimulare aliquid: comprimere (to conceal).
reserve s.
A keeping back, retentio; usually by the verbs. To keep in reserve; Vid: the verb.
Studied silence, taciturnitas (silence): modestia, verecundia (modesty): dissimulatio (not telling all that one knows): cautio (caution). Without reserve, aperte: ingenue: libere: plane: simpliciter: non timide: to speak with reserve, verecundius loqui de aliqua re: to practise reserve, tergiversari (Liv., Cic.): veram animi sententiam celare, premere: that practices reserve, tectus: occultus: dissimulator: they practiced no reserve, quid sentirent non reticuerunt (Cic., Att., 13, 27, 1).
A body of troops kept back, subsidia, -orum (neuter): copiae subsidiariae: (milites) subsidiarii (general term): acies subsidiaria (drawn up in order of battle). To be in reserve, pro subsidio consistere: in subsidiis esse: to appoint a reserve, in subsidio ponere or collocare.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for reserve?
- The usual Latin words for “reserve” are servō, reservō, cōnservō; also repōnō, sēpōnō, condō. 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.