What is the Latin word for result?

The usual Latin words for “result” are ēventus, exeō, ēmolumentum; also prōveniō, prosperus, frūstrā. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“result” in Latin

ēventusevent, occurrence, reality; outcome, consequence, result exeōto exit, depart, go forth, come forth; to avoid, evade; to escape ēmolumentumeffort, exertion, labour; advantage, benefit, gain, profit prōveniōto come forth, originate, arise; to appear, come forth; to grow up, thrive, prosper prosperusprosperous, successful; favourable, propitious frūstrāin deception, in error; without effect, to no purpose, without cause, uselessly, in vain, for nothing nēquīquamIn vain, vainly, needlessly, uselessly, fruitlessly, pointlessly; to no purpose or effect, without ground or reason sequorto follow, to come or go after, to pursue; to accede or conform to, follow, comply with; to attend, accompany cōnsequorto move, travel, come, pass or go after, or follow behind another (in time and/or space); to chase, to pursue, to go aft ēveniōto happen, occur; to come forth; to happen to, befall (someone)

The English word result itself goes back to Latin saliō, through resulto.

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

result s.

eventus (a consequence): exitus (an issue). (The words are found in this connection and order.) eventus atque exitus; exitus eventusque; emolumentum (advantage, profit). A fortunate result, proventus secundus; proventus (Vid: commentators on Caes., B.G., 7, 29): with a result, non frustra (not in vain): prospere (fortunately): without result, frustra; nequidquam or in cassum: to be without result, irritum or frustra esse; ad irritum cadere; secus cadere: to have a good result, succedere; bene or prospere cedere; prospere evenire: not to doubt of the good result of a measure, rem confici posse non diffidere: to have the desired result, optabilem exitum habere; ex sententia evenire: to have not the desired r., haud bene, minus prospere evenire. To have a fortunate result, felicem exitum habere; prospere, feliciter evenire: to have a remarkable result, notabili exitu concludi: to foretel the result, de exitu divinare: to know the result, scire quos eventus res sit habitura. I fear the result, haec quo sint raptura timeo; quorum hoc evasurum sit vereor.

result v.

sequi, consequi (to follow upon): evenire (to fall out as a consequence): manare, fluere, proficisci (to proceed from), with ex.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for result?: The usual Latin words for “result” are ēventus, exeō, ēmolumentum; also prōveniō, prosperus, frūstrā. 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.