English → Latin
“deject” in Latin
dēprimōto press down; to depress; to suppress, repress or silence; to disparageopprimōto press down upon; to suppress; to take by surprise; to capturefrangōto break, shatter; to break, shatter (a promise, a treaty, someone's ideas (dreams, projects), someone's spirit); to breafflīgōto strike, beat, dash (against); cast or throw down, prostrate; to afflict, damage, injure, crush, break or ruin; to humpercellōto beat down; to overturn or upset; to strike or smiteoculuseye; sight, vision; luminary of the sun and stars
The English word deject itself goes back to Latin iaciō, through dēiectus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
deject
deprimere; opprimere (PROP. and figuratively): frangere (figuratively to make spiritless, opposed to erigere; Vid: Bremi, Nep., Them., 1, 3): to be dejected by the consciousness of one’s crimes, conscientia scelerum opprimi: alicujus animum or aliquem frangere (opposed to alicujus animum excitare, or aliquem erigere): alicujus animum infringere, or affligere, or percellere. “With dejected face;” circumlocution with dejicere vultum or oculos (e.g., dejecit vultum et submissa voce locuta est, Verg.): dejectus vultum (Statius).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for deject?
- The usual Latin words for “deject” are dēprimō, opprimō, frangō; also afflīgō, percellō, oculus. 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.