English → Latin
“cease” in Latin
mittōto send, dispatch, cause to go, let go, release, discharge; to put out, extend, reach out (one's hand); to announce, telomittōto let go, allow to pass by, let fall or let loose; to lay aside, give up, abandon, neglect or disregard; to omit, leavecessōto stop, desist, halt, cease; to be lacking or wanting; to delay, hold back, tarrycapiōto take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm; to take on, adopt; to hold, to containquiēscōto rest, sleep, repose; to cause to cease, stop, render quiet; to be still or quiet, lie stillconquiēscōto rest; to be inactiveabeōto depart, go away, go off, exit; to change one's nature; synonym of eōdēcēdōto withdraw, retire, depart, leave or go away; to desert or abandon, give up, resign, forego; yield; to yield, make way,intermittōto interrupt; to stop (temporarily); to omit
The English word cease itself goes back to Latin cēdō, through cessō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cease
leave off doing anything: desinere aliquid, or with infinitive (leave off without the intention of resuming; it may also be said of things that cease): desistere aliqua re; ab or de aliqua re; or with infinitive (to desist, from an act of the will, and therefore spoken of persons only): absistere aliqua re, or with infinitive (not used by Cic.): mittere, with infinitive (to let it go; give it up): finem facere aliquid faciendi, or alicujus, or alicui rei (put an end to it): conquiescere ab re (to rest from it): omittere: intermittere aliquid, or with infinitive (the former of a total giving up, the latter of a temporary suspension): cessare, with infinitive (to stop repeatedly from indolence, etc.). To cease speaking, finem facere dicendi or loquendi: finem imponere orationi (of an oration): also perorare. To cease to be (= die), esse desino. Vid: Sometimes TO CEASE is translated by a verb compounded with de: to cease raining depluere: raging, desaevire.
Have an end, finem habere or capere: quiescere: conquiescere (rest): abire: decedere (go away: these four of diseases; e.g., a fever): intermittere (to allow an interval of rest; to intermit): residere: considere: remittere (of winds and stormy passions subsiding): subsidere (of winds and waves). The wind has entirely ceased, venti vis omnis cecidit. To cease with anybody (of a family), deficere in aliquo (Gell.). To make anything cease, finem facere alicujus or alicui rei: finem imponere alicui rei. The discussion has ceased, disputari desitum est.
Without ceasing [Vid: CEASELESSLY]. To sing without ceasing, ita cano, ut nihil intermittam: to labor without ceasing, nullum tempus ad laborem intermittere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for cease?
- The usual Latin words for “cease” are mittō, omittō, cessō; also capiō, quiēscō, conquiēscō. 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.