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“dismount” in Latin
dēturbōto upset or topple, throw or beat down; to dislodge; to deprive ofeffundōto pour out, shed, spread abroad, drain off; to pour, drive, cast or send out, shower, discharge; to give oneself up to,lūdificōto mock, make fun of, make sport of; to make a fool ofdēscendōto climb down, to go or come down, to descend; to march down; to pierce, to penetrateequitātuscavalry; an instance of riding; the order of equestrians
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
dismount
TRANS.,
To throw off a horse, aliquem de equo dejicere or deturbare; aliquem excutere or effundere (of the horse itself).
To throw from an elevation, dejicere aliquid loco, de and e loco.
Of a piece of ordnance, hostium tormenta ludificari (to make them useless; after Liv.; quibus ea, quae hostes ingenti mole agerent, ludificaretur, 24, 34). [Bau. gives frangere pedamentum or pegma tormentorum.
dismount
INTR.,
To alight from a horse, ex equo descendere; descendere or desilire ex equis (of cavalry, in order to fight on foot): to make the cavalry dismount (to fight on foot), equitatum or equitem deducere ad pedes.
To descend from an elevation; Vid: To DESCEND.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for dismount?
- The usual Latin words for “dismount” are dēturbō, effundō, lūdificō; also dēscendō, equitātus. 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.