English → Latin
“thrive” in Latin
crēscōto rise, grow, grow up; prosper, thrive; increase, multiply, augment; to come to be; to become visible, spring from, ariprōveniōto come forth, originate, arise; to appear, come forth; to grow up, thrive, prosperconvalēscōto recover (from an illness); to gain strengthineōto enter, go into; to begin; to have sexual intercoursebonusgood, honest, brave, noble, kind, pleasant; right; useful
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
thrive
crescere (to grow; PROP. and figuratively): provenire (of trees, corn, etc.; also, figuratively, as Plin., Ep., 3, 19, extr.; of studies): convalescere (figuratively, to grow strong; Vid: Cic., Rep., 2, 14, init.). To thrive well, bene, feliciter provenire (PROP.); *laeta incrementa capere (figuratively): wealth unjustly gotten never thrives, male parta male dilabuntur (Poeta ap Cic., Phil., 2, 27, init.): to cause to thrive, aliquid laetum facere (PROP.); rem alere (figuratively, Cic., Tusc., 1, 2, 4, honos alit artes); rem augere; incrementum afferre alicui rei.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for thrive?
- The usual Latin words for “thrive” are crēscō, prōveniō, convalēscō; also ineō, bonus. 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.