What is the Latin word for dissuade?

The usual Latin words for “dissuade” are quīn, quōminus, abdūcō; also dēdūcō, āvertō, abstrahō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

English → Latin

“dissuade” in Latin

quīnhow come not, why don't I/you/he ..., how about? (in questioning suggestions)quōminusthat not abdūcōto lead away or aside, take away, bring away, carry off; detach, remove; to take (with one) to dine; to take aside dēdūcōto lead or bring out or away, divert; escort, accompany, conduct (out of one's house as a mark of respect or for protect āvertōto turn away, turn off, avert; to avoid, divert, deviate; to remove; to steal, embezzle, appropriate to oneself abstrahōto draw away from, drag or pull away; to withdraw, alienate from; to divert, draw away

The English word dissuade itself goes back to Latin suādeō, through dissuādeō.

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

dissuade

dissuadere aliquid or de aliqua re: dissuasorem alicujus rei esse: dehortari aliquem a or de re, or with ne, quin, quominus (Vid: Zumpt, § 534): abducere: deducere: avertere: abstrahere (aliquem a re, are stronger terms; to turn anybody from a purpose): non censere aliquid faciendum esse (especially of a member of a deliberative body): to dissuade from an opinion, aliquem de aententia deducere, demovere: from a plan, project, from what anybody has taken into his head, aliquem a consilio revocare: not to allow one’s self to be dissuaded, perstare in aliqua re (to persist in anything); that does not suffer himself to be dissuaded, firmus proposito (Velleius, 2, 63): to dissuade anybody from a thing, dissuadere, ne aliquis faciat aliquid, or simply dissuadere aliquid or de aliqua re (☞ but never dissuadere alicui aliquid, which we do not find before Sen., Herc., oet., 929); avocare aliquem ab aliqua re (to endeavor to turn anybody from doing anything): to dissuade (or oppose one’s self to) the passing of a bill, dissuadere, ne legem accipiant: to dissuade them from setting the prisoners free, dissuadere de captivis; captivos remittendos non censere; captivos retinendos censere.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for dissuade?: The usual Latin words for “dissuade” are quīn, quōminus, abdūcō; also dēdūcō, āvertō, abstrahō. 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.