English → Latin
“sufficient” in Latin
pāreven (of a number); equal; likepossumbe able to, can, may; in the 3rd person singular (pote est): it may be, it is possible; to have influence or efficacy, tet cēteraet cetera, and the rest, and so on: used to note that the rest of a list or piece of information continues in a similar
The English word sufficient itself goes back to Latin sufficiō, through sufficiēns.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
sufficient
quod satis esse videtur or visum est (enough): par (a match for): satis idoneus (proper, fit, as it ought to be); also by satis (enough) with a genitive. ☞ Sufficiens absolutely, is late. “Sufficient” may often be translated by is (= such) followed by a relative clause with posse, etc. (e.g., Deiotarus non eas copias habuit, quibus inferre bellum populo Romano posset). I am not sufficient for these things, *non is sum, qui haec facere, etc. possim: to leave a sufficient garrison, praesidium, quod satis esse videtur (visum est), relinquere: sufficient eloquence, satis eloquentiae: sufficient knowledge of anything, *satis idonea alicujus rei scientia: to have strength sufficient for anything, sufficere ad aliquid: to be sufficient, satis esse; suppetere alicui rei; for a person or thing, sufficere alicui, ad aliquid [Vid: ENOUGH]: to have sufficient to live on, habere in sumtum (Cic., ad Fam., 9, 20, 1, Manut; opposed to deest mihi in sumtum ad necessarios usus, Sen., Benef., 2, 10, 1, Gronov.); rem habere (Cic., Off., 2, 21, 73).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for sufficient?
- The usual Latin words for “sufficient” are pār, possum, et cētera. 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.