What is the Latin word for detach?

The usual Latin words for “detach” are soleō, dissolvō, sēparō; also sēgregō, sēiungō, sēcernō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“detach” in Latin

soleōto be accustomed, used to, in the habit of dissolvōto unloose, disunite, separate, dissolve, destroy; to pay, discharge (a debt etc.); to abolish, abrogate, annul sēparōto divide, separate; to distinguish sēgregōto separate, divide; to remove; to segregate sēiungōto separate, sever or disunite; to exclude sēcernōto put apart, sunder, sever, separate, divide; to disjoin, part, dissociate, separate; to distinguish, discern abscindōto tear, rend off or away (especially with the hand); to separate, divide, cut off; alienate sēmoveōto move apart, put aside, remove, separate, part disiungōto disjoin, disunite, separate, part, divide; to unharness, unyoke

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

detach

Separate, disengage, solvere: dissolvere (to destroy the connection between things, and so set them free): separare (to separate): segregare (PROP., to separate from a herd; then generally to remove from a body): sejungere: secernere (especially to separate the pure or good from the impure or bad): abscindere (to cut off with violence; to rend, etc.): semovere (to move anybody or anything away from): disjungere (to disjoin persons or things that are united). To detach one’s self from anybody, se sejungere ab aliquo: to detach one’s self from society, *ab hominum consuetudine se removere; hominum consuetudini se excerpere (Sen., Ep., 5, 2): to detach one’s thoughts from external objects, a consuetudine oculorum mentis aciem abducere: to detach a person from another, disjungere aliquem ab alicujus amicitia; divellere aliquem ab aliquo (by violent means): to connect what had been detached, dissipata connectere; rem dissolutam divulsamque conglutinare: to detach myself from the side I have hitherto supported, dissociare causam meam (Tac.).

To detach troops, una mittere.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for detach?: The usual Latin words for “detach” are soleō, dissolvō, sēparō; also sēgregō, sēiungō, sēcernō. 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.