English → Latin
“supply” in Latin
suppleōto make up the numbers, fill up, complete, make good; supply, supplement; to fill up, furnish with a complement, recruitcompleōto fill up, fill full, fill out; make up, complete; to cover, overwhelm; to occupy, set up a garrison (military)expleōto fill up, occupy completely; to appease, satisfy, placate the thirst, satiate the hunger; to supply, repair, compensatreficiōto make again, make anew; remake, renew, rebuild, reconstruct; to restore, repair, fix, refit; to reappoint, re-electredintegrōto restore or renew, refresh or revivepraebeōto proffer, offer; to provide, grant, furnish, supply, service; to show, displaydēpereōto perish, to be ruined, to get lost, to go awaste; to be desperately in love with, to love to distractionsupplēmentumreinforcements; suppliescomplēmentumcomplement (that which fills up or completes); completionexplēmentumthat which fills up.
The English word supply itself goes back to Latin pleō, through suppleo.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
supply v.
To fill up what is deficient, supplere (to add what is wanting): complere: explere (to complete): reficere, redintegrare (to restore, repair). To supply a loss, quod periit, deperiit, explere: to supply in thought, intelligere, supplere, aliquid (☞ subaudire was used in this sense in the Silver Age, but subintelligere is not Latin): to supply the place of anybody, obire alicujus vices (Plin.); fungi alicujus vice (Liv.): vicarium alicujus esse (to act in his stead): succedere in alicujus locum (to occupy his room).
To yield, afford, dare: praebere:
To furnish; Vid.
supply s.
That by which a deficiency is filled up, supplementum: complementum: explementum: (☞ complementum rem perficit; supplementum id quod deerat adjicit).
Provision, quod datur ad aliquid (considered as given or provided): facultates, opes, copiae, res (things considered in themselves, as for the purposes of use). A good supply of anything, copia: vis: supplies (of food, etc., for an army), commeatus: frumentum: res frumentaria: to get or take care of supplies, rem frumentariam providere, comparare: frumentum conferre: commeatum petere: to furnish supplies, commeatum supportare (Caes., B.G., 3, 23); subvehere (Liv.); adducere (Curt.); frumentum subministrare (Caes.): to be without supplies, re frumentaria laborare (Cic.) or premi (Caes.); rei frumentariae difficultate affectum esse (Caes.): to be short of supplies, angusta re frumentaria uti.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for supply?
- The usual Latin words for “supply” are suppleō, compleō, expleō; also reficiō, redintegrō, praebeō. 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.