Relatare

Relatare is a Latin verb meaning to relate, recount, or report. It appears in classical and medieval Latin texts whenever authors describe telling what happened, giving an account, or conveying information about events, testimony, or narratives.

Grammar and usage: relatare is a first-conjugation verb. In Latin prose it follows the standard endings of -are verbs, appearing in tenses and moods such as the present, imperfect, perfect, and subjunctive. The infinitive form relatare marks the act of relating or recounting, while finite forms express narrated or reported speech, testimony, or historical narration depending on the context.

Influence and related terms: The verb yields English derivatives such as relate, relation, and relational. In philosophy and logic, the term relata (plural of relatum) denotes the things that bear a relation to one another; the concept is central to distinguishing a relation from the terms it connects. This distinction features in discussions of truth, predicates, and the structure of explanation in metaphysics and formal logic.

Cross-linguistic note: In modern Romance languages, forms derived from Latin relatare appear as relatar in Spanish and Portuguese, meaning to tell or recount. In scholarly Latin glossaries, relatare occurs in definitions of narration or testimony and is sometimes encountered in legal or rhetorical contexts as a way of presenting information about events.