English → Latin
“abase” in Latin
dēscendōto climb down, to go or come down, to descend; to march down; to pierce, to penetrateminuōto make smaller, lessen, diminish, reduce, minimize; to attenuate, appease, suppress, repress, quell; to dismember, tear
The English word abase itself goes back to Latin ad.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
abase
humble one’s self, se demittere, se submittere; descendere (all three also figuratively). Phrase, se ad alicujus pedes sub-, de-mittere.
Depress; humble, minuere; imminuere alicujus auctoritatem: elevare aliquem or alicujus auctoritatem.
Abase myself to anything, prolabi ad aliquid, descendere ad aliquid, se projicere in aliquid.
Disgrace one’s self, minuere suam dignitatem: se abjicere, se abjicere et prosternere.
Abase one’s eyes, oculos in terram demittere, dejicere; oculos dejicere; terram intueri, before anybody, oculos alicui submittere; terram modeste intueri.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for abase?
- The usual Latin words for “abase” are dēscendō, minuō. 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.