English → Latin
“blot out” in Latin
exstinguōto quench, extinguish, put out; to destroy, kill, slay, abolishdēleōto destroy, raze, annihilate; to finish, terminate, put an end to; to delete (e.g. Ecclesiastical: from the book of lifeindūcōto lead, bring or conduct in or into somewhere; to bring forward, exhibit, represent; to bring into or before a courtrādōto scrape, shave, scratch; to rub, smooth; to touch (upon), brush along, grazeērādōto scrape away, pare; to abolish, eradicate, remove; to erase, deleteoblitterōto erase, efface, obliterate, blot out; to consign to oblivion, cause to be forgottenlābēsfall, collapse; subsidence; fault, defectīnfuscōto darken or obscure; to sully, stain or tarnishdēfōrmōto form, fashion; to design, delineate, describe; to deform, disfigure; to spoil, marfoedōto make foul or filthy, soil, dirty; defile, pollute, disfigure, mar, deform; to dishonor, disgrace
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
blot out
exstinguere: delere (generally): inducere (by drawing the wax over it with the style): radere, eradere (to dig out). Fig., exstinguere, delere, oblitterare. Blot out the remembrance of a thing, memoriam alicujus rei delere or oblitterare.
Blot (to blur, spot), maculare, maculis aspergere; macula (-is) or litura (-is) deformare, turpare. INTR., the paper blots, charta transmittit (diffundit) litteras, charta est bibula.
To disgrace, disfigure, labem or labeculam aspergere alicui or alicui rei, alicui ignominiam inurere; infuscare, deformare, infamem facere, foedare, oblinere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for blot out?
- The usual Latin words for “blot out” are exstinguō, dēleō, indūcō; also rādō, ērādō, oblitterō. 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.