English → Latin
“submit” in Latin
referōto bear, bring, drive, or carry back, off, or away; to give back, give up, return, restore, pay back, repay, render, paydēscendōto climb down, to go or come down, to descend; to march down; to pierce, to penetrate
The English word submit itself goes back to Latin mittō, through submittere.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
submit
Intransitively, se submittere alicui: se dedere alicui: se subjicere alicujus imperio: in alicujus potestatem se permittere: in alicujus ditionem venire: sub alicujus imperium ditionemque cadere: sub nutum ditionemque alicujus pervenire. To submit to the laws, se subjicere legibus (Plin., Pan., 65); legibus parere (Cic.). To submit to an indignity, or = to condescend to anything, descendere, or sua voluntate descendere; to anything, ad aliquid (the proper word): se demittere; to anything, ad or in aliquid: se submittere; to anything, ad or in aliquid: dignari aliquid facere (not Cic.; but Catullus, Lucr., Verg., Col., Suet., both positively and negatively). To submit to use all manner of entreaties, descendere in preces omnes: to submit to use flattery, se demittere in adulationem (Tac.): to submit to the disgrace of pleading one’s cause as a criminal, submittere se in humilitatem causam dicentium (Liv.).
Transitively, To refer, referre (ad). Vid: REFER.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for submit?
- The usual Latin words for “submit” are referō, dēscendō. 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.