English → Latin
“return” 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 restituteremittōto send back, to remit, to throw back, restore; to forgive, free one from any thing; to give up, reject, yield, resign, redhibeōto take, carry or give back, return; to receive or take backrespondeōto reply, answer, respond; to offer or present in return; to measure upreferōto bear, bring, drive, or carry back, off, or away; to give back, give up, return, restore, pay back, repay, render, payrepōnōto put back; to put back, return a bone to its proper place, to reduce a dislocation; to restoreprofiteorto declare publicly, own (up to) or confess openly, acknowledge, avow, profess; to offer freely, promise; to profess, clredeōto go, move, turn or come back; turn around, return, revert, reappear, recur; to home; to be brought or reduced to; arrirevertorto return; to turn back, turn around
The English word return itself goes back to Latin tornō, through retornare.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
return
Transitively, To give back, reddere (general term): restituere (to restore the same thing): remittere (to send back): redhibere (to return a purchase that is imperfect, etc., in which sense reddere or reddere aliquid unde emtum est is also, found: ☞ redhibere also = to take back).
To repay, requite, referre aliquid: respondere alicui rei (in an equal degree): remunerari aliquid (as a remuneration). To return like for like, par pari respondere or referre (☞ not pro pari; Vid: Bentl. Ter., Eun., 3, 1, 55): parem gratiam referre alicui (Terentianus, Eun., 4, 4, 51): to return a salutation, salutem referre: to return the affection of anyone, alicujus amori respondere (☞ redamare is used only once by Cic., Lael., 14, 49; and that with the addition of “ut ita dicam;” it should, therefore, not be employed in composition): to return kindnesses, beneficia reddere; beneficiis respondere (with services): officiis beneficia remunerari (Cic., post-Red., in Sen., 12, 30): to return a present (by giving one similar), aliquem remunerari quam simillimo munere: I will return this favor if you require it, and even without your requiring it, reddam vicem, si reposces; reddam et si non reposces (Plin., Ep., 2, 9, 6).
To reply, respondere, to anything, alicui rei: referre: reponere (to answer an objection): subjicere (to answer immediately): the shout was returned by others, clamor exceptus est ab aliis.
To give in an official account of one’s property, etc., profiteri.
Intransitively, To come or go back, redire (to be on the way back or home): reverti (to turn back): reducem esse (of a happy return from a distant country, captivity, etc.): revenire (to come back; opposed to advenire): recurrere (hastily): revolare (still stronger, to fly back). To order anybody to return, aliquem revocare; aliquem repetere (urgently): to return to any place, aliquo reverti or redire; aliquem locum repetere (to a place where one used to be): remigrare (to a place where one lived before; e.g., Romam).
return s.
A coming back, reditio: reditus. Return home, reditus domum. Return of a disorder [Vid: RELAPSE].
A giving back, restitutio (Pand.; not redditio): By the verbs. In return, vicissim.
Requital, remuneratio (absolutely, Cic., Off., 2, 20, 69; benevolentiae, Cic., Lael., 14, 49); or by a by circumlocution with referre (for relatio occursonly Sen., Ep., 74, 13, and De Benef., 5, 11, 1, sq., in the expression relatio gratiae; i. e., a returning of thanks by an act).
Profit, produce, fetus: proventus (of the soil): fructus (general term, that which a thing produces, in fruits, money, etc.): quaestus (gain): reditus: vectigal (income from a thing): merces (rent). Returns from estates, fructus, quem praedia reddunt; praediorum mercedulae (in money): praediorum proventus (in fruils): quod ex aliqua re refectum est (☞ Liv., 35, 1; Papinius, Dig., 26, 7, 39, 8): some clear return still comes to the proprietor of the land (sc. after deducting tithes, etc.), puri atque reliqui aliquid ad dominum pervenit (Cic., Verr., 3, 86, 200): to yield or produce return, fructum ferre; fructum edere ex se; fetum edere: the vineyards yield an abundant return, uberrimus est vinearum reditus: this estate makes an excellent return, hic fundus est fructuosissimus; hic ager efficit plurimum. There is a return for the outlay, impensam ac sumtum factum in culturam, fructus reficit (Varr., R; R., 1, 2, 8).
Report of property, etc., (under an income tax), professio (with or without bonorum).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for return?
- The usual Latin words for “return” are reddō, restituō, remittō; also redhibeō, respondeō, referō. 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.