English → Latin
“settlement” in Latin
cōnstitūtiōa constitution, disposition, nature, character; a definition; point in dispute; a regulation, order, arrangement, systemīnstitūtiōdisposition, arrangement; custom, manner; instruction, educationōrdinātiōregulating, arranging; regulation, ordinance, decree, edict; ordinationīnstituōto set up, establish, found, institute or arrange; to train, teach, instruct, educate (usually by a course of training);colōniaA colony, settlement; A possession in land, land attached to a farm, estate; The people composing a colony, colonistscolōnusfarmer, especially a kind of tenant farmer or sharecropper; husbandman; tiller of the soil; colonist, colonial, inhabitafaexsediment, dregs; salt of tartar; brine used for picklingcrassāmenthe thick sediment of a liquid, the dregscrassāmentumthe thicknesssubsīdōto crouch, squat, sit down, set down, sink; to settle, subside; to crouch down on the watch, lie in wait, lie in ambush
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
settlement
Arrangement, constitutio; institutio; ordinatio (act of settling): constitumm, institutum (matter adjusted or settled).
Adjustment of an account, rationes confectae et consolidatae (if the settlement has taken place), or conficiendae et consolidandae (if it be yet to take place): after a settlement of accounts, ratione subducta; rationibus confectis et consolidatis. To have a settlement of accounts with anybody, putare rationem cum aliquo; calculum ponere cum aliquo; alicui rationem reddere (of the debtor): aliquem vocare ad calculos (of the creditor).
A colony, colonia; coloni, plur., (the colonists): colonia (the place): to establish a settlement, coloniam condere, constituere, collocare.
Dregs, faex: crassamen: crassamentum (Col.): subsidentia (plur., participle). Vid: SEDIMENT
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for settlement?
- The usual Latin words for “settlement” are cōnstitūtiō, īnstitūtiō, ōrdinātiō; also īnstituō, colōnia, colōnus. 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.