English → Latin
“despoil” in Latin
dēspoliōto rob, plunder or despoilexspoliōto spoil, pillage or plunderadimōto take away, snatch away, carry off; steal; capture; to take away, deprive of; to remove (from a situation), save, rescdīripiōto tear apart; to tear to pieces; to lay waste, plunder an enemy’s territory or possessions; to loot; steal; robexpīlōto plunder, despoil, pillagecompīlōto snatch together and carry off; plunder, pillage, rob, stealnūdōto strip, bare, nake, make naked; to leave exposed, leave defenseless; to spoil, plunderdēnūdōto denude (lay bare); to uncover; to plunder
The English word despoil itself goes back to Latin spolium, through dēspoliō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
despoil
spoliare aliquem or aliquid; and aliquem or aliquid aliqua re. (The words are found in this connection and order.) spoliare atque orbare; spoliare atque denudare: spoliare aliquem aliqua re et depeculari (of money, argento): despoliare: exspoliare (strengthen the meaning of spoliare; which is to deprive a person or thing of what serves for use or ornament): detrahere spoliareque aliquid: privare aliquem aliqua re: adimere or eripere alicui aliquid: diripere (to plunder men, towns, etc): expilare: compilare (to strip temples, etc.; rob treasuries, etc.: the latter also aliquid aliqua re): nudare, denudare, exuere aliquem re: orbare aliquem re: multare aliquem re: SYN. in DEPRIVE.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for despoil?
- The usual Latin words for “despoil” are dēspoliō, exspoliō, adimō; also dīripiō, expīlō, compīlō. 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.