English → Latin
“derogate” in Latin
minuōto make smaller, lessen, diminish, reduce, minimize; to attenuate, appease, suppress, repress, quell; to dismember, teardērogōto take away, diminish, remove, withdraw, (with dative) detract from; to disparage, dishonor or dishonour; to repeal parimmineōto project, bend or lean toward or over, overhang; to touch on, border upon; to threaten, menace
The English word derogate itself goes back to Latin procō, through dērogātus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
derogate
Disparage, etc., followed by “from,” minuere; imminuere aliquid (especially to lessen): deminuere partem alicujus rei, or aliquid de aliqua re; detrahere de aliqua re (to take away anything from anything): derogare (e.g., quiddam de honestate, Cic.): to derogate from anybody’s fame, alicujus gloriam or laudem minuere, or imminuere; detrahere de alicujus gloria; gloriae alicujus obtrectare: to derogate from anybody’s authority, auctoritatem minuere or imminuere: to derogate from anybody’s good name, detrahere de fama alicujus.
Abrogate (obsolete); Vid: DEROGATION, imminutio: obtrectatio (e.g., of anybody’s renown, alienae gloriae): without any derogation from your dignity, sine imminutione dignitatis tuae. SYN. in DETRACTION.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for derogate?
- The usual Latin words for “derogate” are minuō, dērogō, immineō. 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.