English → Latin
“review” in Latin
recēnsiōan enumeration, review, reassessmentrecēnseōto count, enumerate, reckon or survey; to review, examine, survey or muster; to go over, revise or reviewlūstrātiōlustration (purification by sacrifice)rĕcognĭtĭoA recognitiontrānsvehōto carry, bear, convey across or over; to transport; to pass bytrānseōto traverse; cross, cross over; go across or over; pass, pass through, over or by; to defect, go over (to an adverse sidīnspiciōto examine or inspect; to look into, look upon, consider or contemplate; to observelūstrōto purify by means of a propitiatory sacrifice; to circle, move in a circle around. (because the priest offering such saarmaarms, weapons of war, weaponry, instruments (implements of warfare); military action, war (arms as instruments of policyvirman (adult male human); brave or courageous man, hero, warrior; husband
The English word review itself goes back to Latin videō, through revideō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
review s.
recensio: recensus (the former as action; the latter as state): lustratio (celebration of the lustrum): recognitio (an inspecting, Liv., Suet.). To hold a review, recensum agere: to pass in review, transvehi (of the cavalry; the action, transvectio equitum): transire (of infantry).
review v.
recensere: recensum alicujus agere (to go through singly, in order to satisfy one’s self of the proper nature, number, etc.; e.g., of troops, the Senate, the people): inspicere (to inspect; e.g., the legions, etc.; ☞ Liv., 41, 6, arma, viros, equos cum cura inspicere): numerum alicujus (to take the numbers): aliquid recensere et numerum inire (Caes., B.G., 7, 76): lustrare (to make the solemn review, national and religious, every five years by the censor; and with the army, by a general, every time that he came to the army, or at his departure out of his province, or before a battle): to review a book, *libri censuram scribere; *libri alicujus argumentum recensere atque judicium de eo ferre (Wyttenback).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for review?
- The usual Latin words for “review” are recēnsiō, recēnseō, lūstrātiō; also rĕcognĭtĭo, trānsvehō, trānseō. 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.