English → Latin
“dismiss” in Latin
dīmittōto send away, send forth, send off, dismiss, let go; to renounce, give up, abandon, forego, forsake; to pardon, forgive,ablēgōto send off or away (on a mission); to remove, keep at a distance, banish, send into exile; (of a word) to remove or delāmandōto send forth or away, removeāmoveōto remove from, move, put, or take away; to withdraw, retire; to take away by stealth, steal, or snatchsoleōto be accustomed, used to, in the habit ofexsolvōto unloose, release, free; to unbind, untie, undo; to renounce, abandon, relinquish, leave behindremoveōto remove, take awayconciliuma council; a meetingconveniōto convene, assemble, gather, meet or come together; to accost, to call on; to sue, to let be summoned to court
The English word dismiss itself goes back to Latin mittō, through dimissus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
dismiss
To send away, dimittere (general term to send off or away in different directions): ablegare: amandare (to give anybody some commission, etc., in order to get rid of him): amovere (from one’s presence, as punishment): solvere, exsolvere, liberare aliquem (aliqua re, to let him off, to free him from anything). to dismiss an assembly, concilium, conventum, etc., dimittere: to dismiss the Senate, senatum dimittere.
To divest of an office, loco suo aliquem movere (general term): removere, or amovere, or submovere aliquem a munere (especially of civil officers): to dismiss a magistrate, abrogare or abolere alicui magistratum (both in the Roman sense, and abolere with collateral notion of perpetual dismissal); a governor, aliquem provincia demovere; aliquem expellere potestate: to be dismissed, successorem accipere (i. e., to have a successor appointed).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for dismiss?
- The usual Latin words for “dismiss” are dīmittō, ablēgō, āmandō; also āmoveō, soleō, exsolvō. 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.