English → Latin
“divorce” in Latin
mātrimōniummarriage, matrimony, wedlock.expellōto drive or thrust out or away; expel, eject, banish; dislodge; to force or drive out or away, expel, remove
The English word divorce itself goes back to Latin vertō, through dīvortium.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
divorce v.
matrimonium or nuptias dirimere: to divorce a wife, divortium facere cum uxore; repudium remittere uxori; uxorem repudiare; uxorem matrimonio exigere (Vid: Ruhnken, Ter. Hec., 2, 1, 45); uxorem e matrimonio dimittere (or, if by force, expellere, to turn her out of doors): to be divorced, separari coenis et cubilibus discerni (to be separated a mensa et toro, after Tac., Hist., 5, 5, 2).
FIG., To separate forcibly, Vid: To DIVIDE or To SEPARATE.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for divorce?
- The usual Latin words for “divorce” are mātrimōnium, expellō. 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.