English → Latin
“abate” in Latin
minuōto make smaller, lessen, diminish, reduce, minimize; to attenuate, appease, suppress, repress, quell; to dismember, tearimmineōto project, bend or lean toward or over, overhang; to touch on, border upon; to threaten, menaceremittōto send back, to remit, to throw back, restore; to forgive, free one from any thing; to give up, reject, yield, resign, levōto raise, elevate, lift up; to make light, lighten; to relieve, ease, comfortsublevōto lift up or raise (from underneath); to support, sustain, assist or encourage; to lighten or alleviatelēniōto soften, soothe; to mollify, assuage, appease, pacifymītigōto make soft, ripe, or tender; to mitigate, make mild, tame, pacifybatisA plant, probably samphire
The English word abate itself goes back to Latin battuō, through abbatto.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
abate
Transitively,
lessen, Vid:
Bate, Vid:
Intransitively, minui, se minuere. and minuere (Vid: Herzog, ad Coes., B.G., iii, 12): imminui (to be lessened inwardly): remitti: se remittere, and remittere only (to leave off; of rain, cold, a fever, etc.): levari, sublevari (to be lightened): leniri, mitigari (to be softened; mitigated). Phrase, ira deferveseit: sermo hominum refrigeratur.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for abate?
- The usual Latin words for “abate” are minuō, immineō, remittō; also levō, sublevō, lēniō. 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.