English → Latin
“banish” in Latin
exigōto drive out; expel; to demand, require; enforce, exact (pay); to execute, complete a taskexpellōto drive or thrust out or away; expel, eject, banish; dislodge; to force or drive out or away, expel, removeexturbōto drive or thrust out or awayrelēgōto despatch, send away; to banish, remove to a distance; to put aside, reject, remove; shiftdēportōto bring or convey; to carry along or down; to banish or transport
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
banish
alicui aqua et igni interdicere, exsilio afficere, in exsilium agere or exigere, ex urbe or ex civitate pellere, expellere, ejicere, exturbare; relegare (to a certain place, without depriving of the rights of a citizen and of one’s property): deportare (to transport to a distant, desert place; this was the severest kind of banishment, and subjected a person to the loss of citizenship and of property, and cutoff all hope of return): for ten years, relegare in decem annos: anyone to an island, aliquem relegare, deportare, projicere in insulam.
Fig., to banish doubt expellere dubitationem; all suspicion, delere omnem suspicionem ex animo, love from the heart, amorem ex animo ejicere, amovere: the authority of the senate from the state, exterminare auctoritatem senatus e civitate: to banish sorrow, moestitiam ex animis pellere. A banished man, exsul (who has been driven from his country, or has fled from it in order to escape from punishment): extorris patria, extorris (as being homeless, without reference to punishment); relegatus, deportatus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for banish?
- The usual Latin words for “banish” are exigō, expellō, exturbō; also relēgō, dēportō. 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.