English → Latin
“tend” in Latin
cūrōto arrange, see to, attend to, take care of, look after, ensure, tend to; to heal, cure; to govern, command, preside oveprōcūrōto manage, administer; to take care of, attend to, look after any thingcursusthe act of running; race; Course, way, passage, journey, voyage, march; Course, progress, direction, development, succestendōto stretch, stretch out, distend, extend; to direct oneself or one's course; to aim, strive, go, travel, march, tend, bepergōgo on, proceed, hasten, press on; wake up, awaken, arousespectōto watch, observe, look at, consider; to examine, try, test; to aim, strive, or endeavour aftercolōto cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden; to inhabit; to frequent, be the guardian of, cherish,
The English word tend itself goes back to Latin tendō, through tendere.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
tend
Transitively, curare: procurare (to attend to, take care of): colere aliquid: deservire alicui rei (to take proper care of): dare operam alicui rei (to bestow pains or attention upon). To tend one’s office, colere, obire munus.
Intransitively, PROP., tendere iter or cursum: tendere: pergere.
Figuratively, tendere: spectare.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for tend?
- The usual Latin words for “tend” are cūrō, prōcūrō, cursus; also tendō, pergō, spectō. 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.