English → Latin
“distant” in Latin
āmoveōto remove from, move, put, or take away; to withdraw, retire; to take away by stealth, steal, or snatchdisiungōto disjoin, disunite, separate, part, divide; to unharness, unyokeremoveōto remove, take awaylonginquuslong, extensive; far off, distant, remote; living far off, foreign, strange; prolonged, continued, lasting, tedious, lonultimusthe furthest or farthest, most distant, most remote, the utmost or uttermost, extreme, last; last, final, ultimate, end;distōto stand apart; to be distant; to differ
The English word distant itself goes back to Latin distāns.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
distant
Remote in place and time, amotus: disjunctus (separated by an interval; e.g., procul a barbaris gentibus): remotus (remote, lying separate): longinquus (being far off): ultimus (lying at an extreme point; Vid: Held., Caes., B.G., 3, 27; e.g., ultimae atque extremae gentes). ☞ Not dissitus. Muretus uses regiones dissitae, well Ruhnken justly censures. To be distant, distare, abesse a (ab), etc. (with this difference, that distare refers to the interval, the two extremities being of equal importance; abesse gives prominence to the point from which anything is separated. Distare is not used of persons, and has always the measure of the distance added): a distant relationship, amplissima cognatio: there is a distant relationship between persons, longinqua cognatione contingere aliquem.
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Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for distant?
- The usual Latin words for “distant” are āmoveō, disiungō, removeō; also longinquus, ultimus, distō. 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.