English → Latin
“resignation” in Latin
abdicātiōa renunciation; action of disowning; abdicationcessiōsurrendering, giving uppatiorto suffer, endure, tolerate; to allow, acquiesce, permit, submit; to exist, livedictōto repeat, say often; to dictate (to someone for writing); to compose, express in writingaccipiōto receive, accept, take; to receive, accept, or take in something so as to alter one’s mental or physical state; to heatolerōto bear, endure, tolerate, put up with, support; to sustain (with the notion of barely doing so)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
resignation
The act of giving up, renunciatio (general term): abdicatio (of an office; e.g., dictaturae): cessio (a renouncing or giving up anything in favor of another person): Or by the verbs.
Submission of mind, patientia: aequus animus. To bear anything with resignation, aliquid aequo animo ferre (Nep.); accipere (Sall.) or tolerare (Sall.); aliquid patienter ferre: with perfect resignation, aequissimo animo. All this I bear with perfect resignation, tranquillissimus animus meus totum istuc aequi boni facit (Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for resignation?
- The usual Latin words for “resignation” are abdicātiō, cessiō, patior; also dictō, accipiō, tolerō. 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.