English → Latin
“rest” in Latin
requiēsrest, repose, respite, cessation; a place of restquiēsthe rest of sleep, repose; quiet, calm, lull, peace, cessation from labor; dreamōtiumtime free from activity: leisure, free time; time avoiding activity: idleness, inactivity; peace, repose, quiet, quietnetranquillitāsquietness, calmness, stillness, tranquillity, serenityadminiculuma prop, stay, support; support, help, aid, assistance; assistant, auxiliaryreliquusremaining; surviving; the rest, the remainderrestōto stand firm; to stay behind; to remain, survive; to withstand, resist, opposerelinquōto abandon, forsake, desert; to relinquish, leave (behind); to depart (from)quiēscōto rest, sleep, repose; to cause to cease, stop, render quiet; to be still or quiet, lie stillconquiēscōto rest; to be inactive
The English word rest itself goes back to Latin stō, through restō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
rest s.
Repose, requies (after activity): quies (in itself): otium (leisure): tranquillitas (freedom from disturbance): day of rest, dies ad quietem datus: hour of rest, hora ad quietem data. You give yourself no rest, nullum remittis tempus neque te respicis (Ter., Heaut., 1, 1, 18).
Sleep, Vid:
PROP., support, adminiculum [Vid: PROP].
Remainder, reliquum; quod reliquum est or restat; quod restat, plur., quae restant; reliqui, plur., (of persons). The rest; e.g., part of the senators... the rest, pars senatorum, ... reliqui: for the rest, ceterum, cetera [in all other respects: ☞ ceteroqui or ceteroquin is extremely rare, being found, perhaps, only in Cic., Att., 16, 11, 7, and Fin., 1, 3, 7): de reliquo: reliqua: quod reliquum est: quod superest (as regards the remainder).
rest v.
To be still, non moveri.
To repose, quiescere: conquiescere: requiescere (general term, of persons and things): quieti se dare or tradere (to take rest, of persons). To rest from all trouble and toil, ex omnibus molestiis et laborious conquiescere: to recommend anybody rest, aliquem respirare et conquiescere jubere: not to let anybody rest, aliquem numquam acquiescere sinere. I will not rest until, haud desinam, donec: the land rests (i. e., is uncultivated, lies fallow), ager quiescit or requiescit.
To lean, niti, inniti in re or in rem; sustineri aliqua re; incumbere in aliquid or alicui rei.
To depend, in the phrase to rest with; i. e., to depend upon, in aliquo, or in re positum, or situm esse. Vid: DEPEND.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for rest?
- The usual Latin words for “rest” are requiēs, quiēs, ōtium; also tranquillitās, adminiculum, reliquus. 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.