English → Latin
“depress” 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 breīnfringōto break off, infringe; to check, weaken, lessen, diminish, mitigate or assuage
The English word depress itself goes back to Latin premō, through dēpressus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
depress
deprimere; opprimere (PROP. and figuratively): frangere (figuratively, to make spiritless, opposed to erigere, Vid: Bremi, Nep., Them., 1, 3): to be depressed by a consciousness of his crimes, conscientia scelerum opprimi: to depress or afflict anybody, aliquem, or alicujus animum affligere; alicujus animum frangere or infringere: to depress anybody’s hopes, spem alicujus incidere or infringere; suddenly, spem alicujus praecidere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for depress?
- The usual Latin words for “depress” are dēprimō, opprimō, frangō; also īnfringō. 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.