“word” in Latin

vocabulum (as the name of anything = nomen; rare in Cic.): verbum (considered as spoken or written): vox (an expression containing a complete proposition: vox, especially as an expression of feeling verbum, of an idea): dictum (an expression of intellect or humor; often an expression may be regarded as a vox or a dictum): nomen (the distinctive name of an object). “The word plough,” verbum aratri (☞ not verbum aratrum): words = speech, sermo: oratio: an old word, verbum vetus, vetustum, priscum: a new word, verbum novum, novatum: word for word, ad verbum (e.g., de Graecis exprimere; ediscere; cum aliqua re convenire); verbum e verbo exprimere (Cic., when he translates, e.g., πάθη, morbi; κατάληφις, comprehensio); verbum de verbo expressum efferre (Terentianus, in same sense); verbum pro verbo reddere (☞ not verbo tenus, which is = “in word only”: opposed to re): to give the spirit of an author without translating him word for word, non verbum pro verbo reddere, sed genus omnium verborum vimque servare (Cic.): to translate word for word, ad verbum aliquid transferre, exprimere (Cic.): verbum verbo reddere (Hor.); verbis totidem aliquid transferre (Cic.): to say a word, verbum facere: not to utter a word, verbum nullum facere (Cic.): to get a word out of anybody, verbum ex aliquo elicere (Cic.): to define one’s words, verba definire et describere: to use a word in a certain sense; by circumlocution with verbo uti (not verbum usurpare, adhibere); subjicere sententiam vocabulo; vocabulo aliquid significare, declarare. To use a word in a rare application, verbum doctiuscule ponere. Cic., too, makes a similar application of the word, item consimiliter Cic. verbo isto utitur. Cic. uses the word in a contrary meaning, contra valet cum Cic. - ita dicit: to agree in substance, but to be different in words, re consentire, vocabulis differre (Cic.): to which the word virtue is usually applied, in quo nomen poni solet virtutis (☞ if the word in apposition is an adjective, the following passage of Cic. is a good example: “To the word happy,” etc., huic verbo, cum beatum dicimus, etc.; Cic., Tusc., 5, 10). To exchange words with anybody, verba commutare cum aliquo or inter se: to have words = to quarrel, dispute, altercari, altercationem facere (Cic.); verbis certare cum aliquo: to say anything in few words, brevi circumscribere, explicare, expedire aliquid; parva significatione ostendere aliquid: I with to say two or three words to you, paucis te volo (Persius); te tribus verbis volo (Plaut.); tribus verbis (ib.); paucis ausculta! paucis audi! (Terentianus): fair words, blandae voces; benigna oratio; benigna verba (Cic.): to waste words, verba frustra consumere: don’t say a word about the marriage, verbum unum cave de nuptiis (Ter.): not to suffer one to speak a word, interloqui aliquem (Ter.); loqui conantem interpellare: in one word, uno verbo; ut verbo dicam; quid multa? To take the words out of one’s mouth, orationem alicui ex ore eripere (Plaut.): not to be able to get a word from anybody, ex aliquo verbum elicere, or vocem exprimere, non posse: to say or put in a good word for anybody, deprecari aliquem ab aliquo (in order to avert a danger, etc.): commendare aliquem alicui (in order to recommend or introduce him). To beguile by fair words, ducere aliquem dictis, with or without phaleratis (frequent in Ter.); lactare aliquem et spe falsa producere (Ter., Andr., 4, 1, 24): to put one off with fair words, pollicitaudo lactare alicujus animum (ib., 4, 4, 9): want of words, inopia (verborum; opposed to verborum copia, ubertas): a little word = particle, vocula (Gell.; ☞ but there is no authority for verbulum): structure of words, ordo, strilctura verborum; consecutio verborum (construction): connection of words, verborum junctio (Cic.), junctura (Hor., A.P.), copulatio (Quint.): word of command [Vid: COMMAND]. To be at a loss for words, verba desunt alicui (Cic.); aliquis continuandi verba facilitate [al. facilitate] destituitur (from confusion, want of presence of mind, Quint.): to employ a word that has become obsolete, verbum a vetustate repetere (Quint.). Play upon words, annominatio (Cic. and Quint., [Vid. PUNNING, and the examples there given]): verborum lusus (Ruhnken): To have the last word, ad extremum obloqui (Bauer): the Word of God = the Bible, litterae divinae, sanctae; libri divini (ecclesiastical): to preach the Word of God, *Dei voluntatem interpretari [Vid :, also, Holy WRIT]: the Word of Life, *doctrina salutaris.

Promise, fides; promissum. To give one’s word, promissum dare; promittere aliquid: to pledge one’s word for anything, fidem suam in aliquam rem interponere (Caes.); to anybody, fidem alicui dare (Cic.), or interponere (Caes.), or astringere (Ter.): to keep one’s word, be as good as one’s word, fidem servare, praestare (Cic.), conservare (Nep.), liberare (Cic.), exsolvere (Liv.); in fide manere; promissum servare, exsolvere (opposed to fidem non servare; in fide non stare; promissis non stare; promissum non facere; fidem fallere, mutare, prodere): on your word, tua fide (Plaut.); te auctore, sponsore (after Cic.): on my word, mea fide (Cic.); me auctore; me vide! a man of his word, vir fidem datam, promissum datum, religiose servans: to keep one to his word, postulare ut fidem datam servet, exsolvet aliquis (after Cic.; to demand the fulfilment of a promise): instare verbis alicujus; premere verba alicujus (in argument, to tie one close to his expressions): I rely upon your word, tuo promisso, tuis dictis, confido, nitor: you have my word, fidem meam habes! rata ac firma sunt, quae promisi: an honorable man’s word is as good as his bond, in virum honestum, bonum, non cadit mendacium, fraus; promissa fides sequetur.