English → Latin
“betake” in Latin
eōto go, to fare, to move (oneself) (any kind of animate or inanimate motion: walk, ride, sail, fly, etc.); to advance, tofugiōto flee, fly, take flight, escape, depart, run, run away, recede; to speed, hasten, pass quickly; to avoid, shun, be avecōnfugiōto flee; to take refuge; to have recourse toperfugiōto flee or desert; to take refugerefugiōto run away, flee or escape; to avoid, shun a thingapplicōto apply; to add, attach, join to; to steer, bring, land
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
betake
himsilf to any place, se conferre aliquo, petere locum, capessere locum; concedere aliquo (retire to a place): ire, proficisci aliquo (go, travel any whither): to a person, se conferre, accedere ad aliquem; adire, convenire aliquem: to the country, rus ire, concedere rus. He betook himself to Argos to dwell there. Argos habitatum concessit.
Fly to, have recourse to, fugere, confugere, perfugere, refugere, ad or in locum; se recipere aliquo (to retreat to): a person or thing, perfugere, confugere, refugere ad aliquem or aliquid; alicujus rei perfugio uti.
Apply to, se conferre ad aliquid, animum ad aliquid attendere, adjicere, applicare; cogitationes ad aliquid dirigere, ad or in aliquid intendere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for betake?
- The usual Latin words for “betake” are eō, fugiō, cōnfugiō; also perfugiō, refugiō, applicō. 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.