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“despatch” in Latin
mittōto send, dispatch, cause to go, let go, release, discharge; to put out, extend, reach out (one's hand); to announce, teldīmittōto send away, send forth, send off, dismiss, let go; to renounce, give up, abandon, forego, forsake; to pardon, forgive,et cēteraet cetera, and the rest, and so on: used to note that the rest of a list or piece of information continues in a similar dīmissiōsending (out, in different directions); dismissal; remission (of pain)missiōsending, mission; dismissal; dischargeexsecūtiōperformance, execution; indictmenteffectiōachievement, accomplishment; doing, performingperāctiōcompletion, finishmātūrātiōhastening; ripening, maturationlitteraletter (of the alphabet); handwriting; letter, epistle
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
despatch
Send off, mittere (send; e.g., an ambassador, legatum, litteras, etc.): dimittere (several in different directions; proper word of sending off letters, scouts, etc.): (1) if the messengers are to go from person to person, or from place to place, per, or circum, or (Liv.) circa are used; (2) if to a person or nation, ad aliquem; (3) if to a district, in with accusative or ad before the name of a tribe, etc.; (4) in every direction, in omnes partes or quoquoversus. e.g., dimittere nuncios, litteras, etc., circum amicos; circum provincias exercitusque; per omnes provincias; ad Centrones; in finitimas civitates; in eam partem Italiae; in omnes partes; quoquoversus (Caes., B.G., 3, 23, 2): absolvere (to finish a thing; or let a person go whom one has long detained; Plaut.): legare: allegare (to despatch for the execution of a delegated office; e.g., homines nobiles allegat iis, qui peterent, etc., Cic., ; allegarem te ad illos, qui, etc.): to despatch a letter to anybody, mittere or dare litteras ad aliquem (dimittere, if to several in different places).
To finish, execute, etc. [Vid: EXECUTE.] To exhort anybody to despatch a business, hortari aliquem ad aliquid perficiendum: to like to despatch a business quickly, consultis facta conjungere. To despatch a business, expedire negotium: conficere or transigere negotium: profligare negotium (Lentul. ap. Cic., Liv.; implying labour and exertion): to despatch anything between themselves, inter se transigere aliquid: the thing may be despatched in a few words, res paucis verbis transigi potest.
Kill; Vid: DESPATCH,
Act of sending off, dimissio (e.g., nuntii, of a messenger): missio (e.g., litterarum, legatorum, both Cic.); or by circumlocution. Give me my despatch, me absolvito (Plaut.).
The execution, etc., of business, exsecutio (post-Augustan, negotii, Tac., ; instituti operis, Plin.): effectio (only in Cic.’s philosophical writings): peractio (Cic., Cato, Maj., 23, extr.). To prevent the despatch of a business, ne res conficiatur, obsistere: about the despatch of what remains to be done, de reliquis rebus maturandis et agendis (Cic.).
Haste, speed [Vid:] , celeritas festinatioque: maturatio (Auct., ad Herenn.). There is need of despatch, properato or maturato opus est: the utmost possible despatch, quanta maxima adhiberi potest festinatio.
Despatches, litterae: litterae publice missse (from a public officer).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for despatch?
- The usual Latin words for “despatch” are mittō, dīmittō, et cētera; also dīmissiō, missiō, exsecūtiō. 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.