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“come off” in Latin
dēviōto stray, deviate or detourdēflectōto bend or turn downwards or away; to deflect; to digressdēgrediorto go down, march down, descendaberrōto wander, stray or deviate from; to aberr, aberrate, go astray, get lost; deviate, digress; to seek distraction, forgetēlāborto slip or glide away; to escape; to elapseēvādōto exit, leave, come out; to become, result, appear, succeed, end up, turn out (as), result in; to pass over or flee
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
come off
(α) deviate, deflectere: degredi: aberrare: discedere ab aliqua re: elabi: evadere: to come off the right way, de via decedere (improprely): (β) escape (to find one’s self at the end of an affair): to come off without harm, pulchre discedere (comedy): to come off without much harm, ambustum evadere: semiustum effugere (Liv., 22, 35 and 42): to come off with slight punishment, levi defungi poena (Liv., 29, 21): nihil mali nancisci (without any harm, Ter., Phorm., 3, 3, 10): he shall not come off in this manner, inultum id numquam a me auferet: haud sic auferet (comedy): to come off unpunished, impune abire; sine poena demitti: to come off conqueror, victoriam consequi or adipisci: victoriam reportare: to come off with flying colours, superiorem or victorem discedere: superare (also with regard to opinion, etc., as Caes., B.G. 5, 31): (γ) to fall off, cadere: decidere (general term). delabi (by gliding): (δ) to separate itself from, the bark comes off the tree, cortex ab arbore recedit. to come off (of hair), defluere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for come off?
- The usual Latin words for “come off” are dēviō, dēflectō, dēgredior; also aberrō, ēlābor, ēvādō. 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.