English → Latin
“dislodge” in Latin
pellōto push, drive, hurl, impel, propel; expel, banish, eject, thrust out; to strike, set in motion; to rout, put to flight,dēpellōto drive out or away; remove, expel, repel; to drive, thrust or cast down; to drive or push away or dislodge an enemy frexpellōto drive or thrust out or away; expel, eject, banish; dislodge; to force or drive out or away, expel, removeexigōto drive out; expel; to demand, require; enforce, exact (pay); to execute, complete a taskprōpellōto drive, push or urge forth or forward; hurl, propel; to hurl or cast down, overthrow, expel; to drive on, impel, incitprōpulsōto drive forward, propel; to drive back, ward off, repel or repulse, avertprōturbōto drive, on, forward or away; to repel or repulsehostisan enemy of the state, an enemy, a hostile, opponent, foe; the enemyturristower, especially a military tower for siege, advanced to the walls on wheels, or one on a wall for defense; loosely uselocusplace (referring to a specific location); a passage of literature; opportunity; cause; occasion; grounds
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
dislodge
To remove or drive from a place of rest, pellere: depellere: expellere: exigere (drive out by force; without ex, etc., only if these prepositions may be supplied from the context): propellere: propulsare (to drive away or out by striking, beating, pushing, etc; e.g., the enemy, hostem; then propulsare, also figuratively): dejicere (military proper word of dislodging the enemy; dejicere hostes muro, turribus, loco; ex saltu; ex castellis, etc.): proturbare (drive away headlong; e.g., hostem): submovere (to remove and so get rid of; e.g., hostem; noxia animalia).
To remove an army or its quarters, castra in alium locum transferre; castra transferre (e.g., trans flumen; ultra locum); also milites in alia loca transducere.
dislodge v.
INTR. To change one’s dwelling, migrare, or demigrare in alium locum, or in alia loca (general term for removing to another place; from one place to another): domo or e domo emigrare (to leave one’s former abode).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for dislodge?
- The usual Latin words for “dislodge” are pellō, dēpellō, expellō; also exigō, prōpellō, prōpulsō. 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.