English → Latin
“teach” in Latin
doceōto producepraecipiōto take or seize beforehand, in advance; to anticipate; to enjoin, direct, order, commandtrādōto hand over, give up, deliver, transmit, surrender; impart; entrust, confide; to leave behind, bequeath; to give up or profiteorto declare publicly, own (up to) or confess openly, acknowledge, avow, profess; to offer freely, promise; to profess, clostendōto expose to view, exhibit, show; to reveal, expose, make known; to explain, clarifydēclārōto declare or announce; to indicate, reveal or testify; to show or proveērudiōto instruct, to educate; to cultivate, to refine
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
teach
docere (general term): praecipere: praecepta dare de re (to give precepts, rules): tradere (to deliver; e.g., the history or rules of an art, etc.): profiteri (to profess or teach publicly): ostendere: declarare (to show, prove). To teach anybody, aliquem instituere, erudire (to instruct him; the latter especially of a beginner); aliquem condocefacere (to train or teach an animal): to teach a person anything, docere aliquem aliquid (☞ different from edocere aliquem aliquid or de re = to give accurate information on a definite subject); instituere, erudire aliquem aliqua re, in aliqua re; tradere alicui aliquid (Vid: above); imbuere aliquem aliqua re (to imbue with imperceptibly, but completely; also = to give a smattering of).
Proverbially. To teach one’s grandmother to suck eggs; Vid: EGG.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for teach?
- The usual Latin words for “teach” are doceō, praecipiō, trādō; also profiteor, ostendō, dēclārō. 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.