English → Latin
“send” in Latin
mittōto send, dispatch, cause to go, let go, release, discharge; to put out, extend, reach out (one's hand); to announce, tellegōto collect, gather, bring together, catch; to choose, select; to appointablēgōto send off or away (on a mission); to remove, keep at a distance, banish, send into exile; (of a word) to remove or delarcessōto send for, call, invite, summon, fetch; to summon or arraign someone before a court of justice; accuse, inform againstexciōto draw out, extract; to call or bring out or forth, summon; to produce, causeēmittōto send forth, emit, discharge; to hurl, cast; to let forth, let go, send outedōto eat
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
send
To despatch from one place to another, mittere (general term): legare (to see on public business). To send away, ablegare (Terentianus); dimittere aliquem (Cic.): to send for, arcessere (implying that the party comes and appears); accire aliquem; aliquem evocare or excire (of magistrates; to summon anybody to appear before them): to send help to anybody, auxilium submittere alicui: to send forth, emittere: to send forth, i. e., publish, a book, librum emittere, edere: to send out, mittere; dimittere; circummittere (with or without in omnes partes); emittere (only as a military term, of the sending out a division of an army against an enemy; as Caes., B.G., 5, 19, 2, essedarios ex sylvis emittebat).
To grant, Vid:
To transmit, Vid: ☞ In English “to send” must be scribere in reference to sending news, etc., by letter. I hear a somewhat different report from what I sent you in my last, nescio quid aliter audio atque ad te scribebam. To send me (all the news), perscribere (omnes res urbanas, etc.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for send?
- The usual Latin words for “send” are mittō, legō, ablēgō; also arcessō, exciō, ēmittō. 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.