English → Latin
“resolution” in Latin
firmitāsfirmness, durability, strength; constancy, stability, endurance, firmnessstabiliōto make firm, confirm, stay, support, hold still, stabilize; to establish, fix, make secure, confirmcōnstōto stand together; to stand still; to remain the same; stand firm; to agree, correspond, fitgravitāsweight, heaviness; gravity, seriousness; severity, harshnessanimuslife, life force, soul, vitality (that life-giving aspect which animates a thing); conscience, intellect, mind, reason, cōnfirmōto make firm, establish, re-establish, strengthen, fortify, mature, confirm; to encourage, animate, embolden; persuade; cōnsiliumplan, intention, design, purpose; counsel, advice; determination, resolve, resolutionsententiaa way of thinking, view, opinion, judgement or sentence; a purpose, intention, will (one's thinking in respect to the fuvoluntāswill, free will, choice; desire, inclination; disposition towards (something or someone)solūtiōThe act of loosening or unfastening someone or something; dissolution.; looseness, weakness; payment
The English word resolution itself goes back to Latin solvō, through resolūtiō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
resolution
Firmness of purpose, firmitas: stabilitas: constantia (opposed to mobilitas): gravitas (opposed to levitas): animi fortitude: animus certus or confirmatus.
Determination, purpose, consilium (plan, design); or by circumlocution, consilium captum; quod aliquis apud animum statuit, in animum induxit (Cic.): sententia (will, opinion): voluntas (pleasure). A sudden resolution, repentina voluntas; impetus; consilium repentinum or subitum: to form a resolution, consilium capere; to do anything, aliquid faciendi; aliquid facere [Cic., Quint., 16, fin.; Caes., B.G., 7, 71], or ut aliquid faciam [e.g., subito consilium cepi, ut, antequam luceret, exirem, Cic., Att., 7, 10]): consilium inire: to have formed a resolution, in animo habere: my resolution is firm, certum est mihi; stat mihi (sententia); statutum habeo cum animo et deliberatum; also, consilium est aliquid facere (Cic.). To adhere to one’s resolution, in sententia manere, perstare; sibi constare; consilium tenere; consilium non mutare; in proposito susceptoque consilio permanere: to change one’s resolution, consilium mutare, abjicere; de sententia decedere; a sententia discedere.
Solution, solutio: dissolutio (both especially of a captious question): explicatio: enodatio (of a perplexed, difficult matter).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for resolution?
- The usual Latin words for “resolution” are firmitās, stabiliō, cōnstō; also gravitās, animus, cōnfirmō. 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.