English → Latin
“restore” in Latin
reddōto give back, return, restore; to give up, hand over, deliver, render, provide, assign; to surrender, relinquish, deliverestituōto replace, restore, reinstate, re-establish; to rebuild, revive; to restitutereficiōto make again, make anew; remake, renew, rebuild, reconstruct; to restore, repair, fix, refit; to reappoint, re-electreparōto recover, retrieve, repair; to renew, restore; to obtain, purchase, procure by exchangerenovōto renew, restore or revive; to retouch, change, alterrevocōto recall (troops, etc.), to call back; to withdraw; to reviveredūcōto lead, draw, bring or conduct back; bring or accompany home; to withdraw, cause to retreat, draw back, remove; to brin
The English word restore itself goes back to Latin restaurō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
restore
To give back, reddere, restituere to restore: to life, ab inferis excitare, revocare: restored to life, ab inferis excitatus, revocatus (☞ not redivivus):
To put into its former condition, restituere (general term): rursus restituere; reficere (to repair what was injured): reparare (to renew what had been more completely destroyed): renovare (to renew). In a wider sense, also, revocare (Liv.); reducere (Plin., Ep.); referre aliquid (Cic.). ☞ Avoid restaurare; even instaurare occurs but seldom in the best writers: to restore a picture, picturam jam evanescentem vetustate coloribus iisdem quibus fuerat renovare (Cic., Rep., 5, 1, 2): nova pictura interpolare opus (to restore with fresh colors; Plaut., Most., 1, 3, 103).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for restore?
- The usual Latin words for “restore” are reddō, restituō, reficiō; also reparō, renovō, revocō. 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.