English → Latin
“abject” in Latin
abiciōto throw or hurl down or away, cast or push away or aside; to give up, abandon; expose; discard; to humble, degrade, reddēmittōto send or bring down, cause to hang or fall down; drop, flow, shed, sag, let fall; to sink, lower, put down; to cast dosummittōto place underneath; to put forth (from below); to rear or raise (animals)humilislow, lowly, small, slight; shallow; base, mean, humble, obscure, poor, needy, insignificant, low; short, not tall (of phillīberālisignoble, ungenerous, sordid, mean, disobliging; niggardly, graspingmollissoft, delicate to the touch; pliant, flexible, supple; mild, tendereffēminōto weaken or enervate; to make feminine or emasculatefrangōto break, shatter; to break, shatter (a promise, a treaty, someone's ideas (dreams, projects), someone's spirit); to bre
The English word abject itself goes back to Latin iaciō, through abiectus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
abject
abjectus (flung away as worthless, hence (1) worthless, low, (2) dispirited); demissus (beaten down; of one who has lost his spirit); summissus (subjected, hence submissive, servile, low-minded); humilis (low, opposed to altus); illiberalis (unlike a free man; ungentlemanly, sordid). Videndum est ne quid humile, summissum, molle, effeminatum, fractum, abjectumque faciamus (Cic., Cat., 2, 1). (The words are found in this connection and order), contemtus et abjectus: perculsus et abjectus (in despair). Abject poverty, gravissima paupertas; summa egestas; paupertas vel potius egestas ac mendicitas (Cic., Parad., 6, 1, quite at the end). Abject flattery, summissa adulatio (Quint., 11, 1, 30). Vid. CONTEMPTIBLE, VILE.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for abject?
- The usual Latin words for “abject” are abiciō, dēmittō, summittō; also humilis, illīberālis, mollis. 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.