English → Latin
“suspend” in Latin
differōto carry different ways, spread, scatter, disperse, separate; to distract, disquiet or disturb someone; confound; to sprprōferōto bring out, bring forth; to make known, produce in public, publish, reveal; to appear, show oneselfcōnferōto bring or collect together, gather; unite, join, connect; to bring or place together or near, set in opposition, opposprōcrāstinōto put off until tomorrow; to defer, delay, procrastinateprōdūcōto lead or bring forth, forward or out; to conduct to; bring before, present; to draw or stretch out, lengthen, extendprōlātōto lengthen, extend, enlarge; to prolongprōtrūdōto thrust or push forwards; to protrudeintermittōto interrupt; to stop (temporarily); to omitomittōto let go, allow to pass by, let fall or let loose; to lay aside, give up, abandon, neglect or disregard; to omit, leavedīmittōto send away, send forth, send off, dismiss, let go; to renounce, give up, abandon, forego, forsake; to pardon, forgive,
The English word suspend itself goes back to Latin pendō, through suspendo.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
suspend
To hang anything on anything, suspendere aliquid alicui rei or (de, a, ex) aliqua re. To be suspended, pendere (PROP. and figuratively); on or from anything, ab (de, ex, in) aliqua re: dependere (PROP.; both pendere and dependere denote the hanging loose from a fixed point, without a support under the thing); on anything, (de, ex) aliqua re. To be suspended from the ceiling of a room, dependere de laquearibus, de camera (e.g., a lamp, etc.).
To defer, differre: proferre: conferre: procrastinare. (The words are found in this connection and order.) differre et procrastinare: producere: prolatare: rejicere in or ad: protrudere [SYN. in DEFER]. To suspend hostilities, facere or inire indutias: to suspend one’s judgement, in dubio esse: dubitare.
To check, interrupt, Vid:
To leave off, intermittere (the proper word): omittere, dimittere (= to leave off entirely): abjicere (not to continue): desinere (to cease to practise; e.g., artem): desistere re or a re (to desist from). To suspend payment, bonam copiam ejurare (litterally, to declare upon oath that one is insolvent, Cic., Fam. 9, 16, 7).
To remove from an office, loco suo (ad or in tempus) aliquem movere: (ad or in tempus) removere, amovere, summovere aliquem a munere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for suspend?
- The usual Latin words for “suspend” are differō, prōferō, cōnferō; also prōcrāstinō, prōdūcō, prōlātō. 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.