English → Latin
“discard” in Latin
repudiōto cast off, reject, repudiate, disdain, rebuffremoveōto remove, take awayexuōto extract, take out, draw out, pull off; to free; to take off (clothes, shoes); doffrelēgōto despatch, send away; to banish, remove to a distance; to put aside, reject, remove; shiftdūcōto lead, guide, conduct, lead away; to take; to draw, pull
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
discard
Cast off a person, dimittere aliquem (e.g., a soldier or servant): repudiare (to reject, etc.; e.g., istos comites, Plaut.; duces, Caes.): To discard a friend, removere se ab amicitia alicujus (Cic., Lael., 21, 77) or ab aliquo (Cic., Att., 4, 8, 6, § 3); repudiare amicitiam alicujus (Cic.); deficere ab amicitia alicujus (Nep., Con., 2); renunciare amicitiam alicui (Liv.).
Reject or get rid of a thing, rejicere (e.g., socordiam, Plaut.): rejicere et aspernari (Cic.): removere (e.g., avaritiam, superbiam, Sall.; moram, Plaut.; sumptum, Cic.): repudiate (e.g., iracundiam, virtutem, etc.). (The words are found in this connection and order.) spernere et repudiare: repudiare rejicereque: exuere (to strip off anything, humanitatem omnem; feritatem, etc.): nuncium remittere alicui rei (to divorce one’s self from it; e.g., virtuti, Cic.): relegare (to banish, † ambitionem, Hor.): to discard the feelings of humanity, omnem humanitatem exuere: to discard all suspicion, suspicionem deponere: whatever suspicion one has entertained, omnem offensionem suspicionis, quam habuerat aliquis deponere: to discard anxiety, exonerare animum sollicitudine.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for discard?
- The usual Latin words for “discard” are repudiō, removeō, exuō; also relēgō, dūcō. 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.