English → Latin
“digress” in Latin
abeōto depart, go away, go off, exit; to change one's nature; synonym of eōdiscēdōto leave, depart, abandon, retire (with ablative); to not fulfill, fail to fulfill one's target; to deviate from a targedēgrediorto go down, march down, descenddēvertōto turn away, turn aside; to turn in, put up at, lodge; to resort toēgrediorto go or come out or forth; march or step out; to disembark, land; to ascend, mountēvagorto wander off, out, forthaberrōto wander, stray or deviate from; to aberr, aberrate, go astray, get lost; deviate, digress; to seek distraction, forgetdēclīnōto bend, deviate, turn aside/away, deflect; to inflect, decline; to avoidexeōto exit, depart, go forth, come forth; to avoid, evade; to escapeexspatiorto go off course; to spread out, spread too far; to digress
The English word digress itself goes back to Latin gradior, through digressum.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
digress
in a speech), abire: discedere: degredi (not digredi, all three to go off or away): devertere (Cic.; to a subject, in locum): egredi: evagari (to go out of the way; ☞ in the Silver Age, exire, exspatiari, excurrere, Quint.): aberrare (to wander out of the way): declinare (to bend, as it were, or turn aside): to digress from one’s subject, aberrare, or egredi, or declinare a proposito: to digress too far from one’s subject, alicujus oratio ab eo, quod propositum est, longius aberrat: to digress from an idea, sententiam deflectere: the speech digresses to other subjects, oratio ad alia aberrat. To digress widely (in speaking), longius evagari or labi; ad alia aberrare; oratione longius progredi; extra cancellos egredi, quos sibi ipse circumdedit aliquis; exsultare; too widely, plus justo declinare (e.g., a rerum ordine, Liv.): to return to the point whence I digressed. Vid: under DIGRESSION.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for digress?
- The usual Latin words for “digress” are abeō, discēdō, dēgredior; also dēvertō, ēgredior, ēvagor. 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.