English → Latin
“suit” in Latin
decetto adorn; to be decent, suitable, seemly, or properlīslawsuit, action; contention, strife, quarrelcausacause, reason; case, claim, contention; cause, judicial process, lawsuitvestīmentumgarment, robe, article of clothing; clothes, clothing, garmentssynthesisA collection or reunion of many objects of analogous nature.; mixture, compound (medicine); suit (of clothes), costumePaulusA cognomen of the Aemilius clan.; Paul (biblical figure).
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
suit
Transitively. To adapt, accommodare aliquid alicui rei or ad rem: facere or efficere ut aliquid congruat or conveniat cum re (to make anything suit another thing). To suit the words to the thoughts, verba ad sensus accommodare; sententias accommodare vocibus: a speech to the place, circumstances, and persons, orationem accommodare locis, temporibus, et personis.
To dress, Vid:
Intransitively. To fit well, aptum esse or apte convenire ad aliquid: apte convenire in aliquid (e.g., calcei ad pedes apti sunt or apte conveniunt): bene sedere (to sit well; of a coat, vestis, etc.).
To be fit for a person or thing (= be suitable for), decere (become): aptum esse alicui, or alicui rei, or ad aliquid: accommodatum esse alicui rei or ad aliquid: convenire alicui, or alicui rei, or cum aliqua re: congruere alicui rei or cum aliqua re [SYN. in AGREE]. Not to suit anything, abhorrere a re: the name does not suit him (= is not applicable to him), nomen non convenit or cadit.
To be agreeable to, alicui gratum esse (the proper word); alicui placere (to please); alicui arridere (to make a good impression on): not to suit, ingratum esse: a thing suits me, aliquid gratum juvat (poetical); delectat me aliquid or delector aliqua re: these things do not suit us, ea ingenii nostri non sunt: this spot exactly suits my taste, hic mihi praeter omnes locus ridet or arridet (after Hor., Od., 2, 6, 13).
suit
Action at law, lis: causa [Vid: ACTION]. Costs of a suit litis summa; impensae in litem factae (Paullus, Dig., 3, 3, 30).
A set (of clothes), vestimenta, -orum, plur.; synthesis (a complete suit, Mart., and later writers).
Petition, Vid.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for suit?
- The usual Latin words for “suit” are decet, līs, causa; also vestīmentum, synthesis, Paulus. 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.