English → Latin
“signification” in Latin
significātiōsignal, sign, mark, token; applause; meaning, importvolōto wish, to please; to want; to mean, to intendvōxvoice; accent; speech, remark, expression, (turn of) phrasedēcēdōto withdraw, retire, depart, leave or go away; to desert or abandon, give up, resign, forego; yield; to yield, make way,
The English word signification itself goes back to Latin signum, through significātiō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
signification
Act of signifying; by the verbs.
Meaning, significatio: vis [Vid: MEANING]. A word of wide signification, vox late patens: the original signification, ea verbi significatio, in qua natum est (Gell., 13, 29, in.): naturalis et principalis significatio verbi (Vid: Quint., 9, 1, 4): vera atque propria significatio verbi (Gell., 12, 13): this is the original signification of this word, huic verbo domicilium est proprium in hoc: to depart from the original signification, ab ea verbi significatione, in qua natum est, decedere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for signification?
- The usual Latin words for “signification” are significātiō, volō, vōx; also dēcēdō. 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.