“drop” in Latin

gutta (a natural, globular drop): stilla (a drop which, at first, hangs down longitudinally from what it begins to drop from; hence, an artificial drop from a glass, etc.): cf., stiria is a congealed stilla): a small drop, guttula: not a single drop, ne tantillum quidem; ne minimum quidem: drop by drop, guttatim: stillatim [SYN. above]. The rain comes down in large drops, nimbus effunditur.

In medicine, *liquor medicatus.

Ear-ring, Vid.

To pour in drops, effundere (to pour out, in general): stillare (to cause to fall in drops, rorem ex oculis, Hor.; poetical); destillare (from or from above): to drop down dew, irrorare (poetical, rore rigare, Cic., Poet., De Divin., 1, 12, 20).

To let fall from a higher place, mittere (to leave hold of): to drop the curtain, aulaeum mittere or premere: to drop a tear, tradere se lacrimis; lacrimam or lacrimulam emittere, dare, both poetical: to drop a tear for anybody, lacrimam dare alicui (Ov.): lacrimare casum alicujus (Nep.): I saw you drop a tear, vidi ego tuam lacrimulam (ironically, Cic.): to drop anchor, ancoram jacere.

To let go, (1) Physically; of a thing before held, omittere (e.g., arma, habenas): manu emittere (to drop from the hand purposely; e.g., to drop the shield, scutum); also de (ex) manibus dimittere, emittere. (2) IMPROPR. To intermit, to cease, omittere (to entertain no longer, to dismiss from one’s mind, to give over; e.g., hopes, fear, grief, etc.): mittere: missum facere: dimittere (to give up whatever we can not maintain or keep possession of): abjicere: ponere: deponere (to give over whatever we do not think right, advantageous, etc.; e.g., enmity, hatred, etc.): desistere de re or de aliqua re (implying a sudden change of purpose): to drop all hope, spem omittere, deponere, abjicere: to drop anybody’s cause, deserere aliquem: causam alicujus deponere: a causa alicujus recedere. To drop the subject, rem integram or in medio relinquere: let us drop it, relinquamus (let’s say no more of it; comic): pray drop it! missa isthaec! fac! mitte, omitte hate! (i. e., do drop it!): drop this nonsense, aufer ridicularia (comic): to drop the notion, dimittere cogitationem alicujus rei.

To let go a dependant or companion, omittere aliquem (in a contemptuous sense): to drop anybody’s acquaintance, consuetudinem intermittere (altogether): drop him! sine eum (sc. ire; i. e., let him go, have no more to do with him; after Ter., Ad., 3, 2, 23).

To bedrop, speckle, maculis variare (☞ not maculare, which in prose stands only for “making spots”).

To drop anybody a few lines, aliquid litterarum ad aliquem dare.

INTR.,

To fall in drops, stillare; from, out of anything, stillare ex, de, etc.; into anything, in aliquid: destillare (down from above): defluere: delabi (to come or flow down gently; e.g., de caelo, of rain): stillatim cadere (Varr., L.L., p. 11, Mull.): desilire ex edito (from above; e.g., of the water of a basin): the dew drops, rorat; ros cadit.

To drop out or off (i. e., to fall down from anything to which it had been attached), cadere (to fall out and down; of teeth, hair, etc; opposed to nasci, subnasci): excidere (to fall out, of teeth, etc.): decidere (to fall down, of teeth, hair, feathers): fluere, defluere, effluere (to drop out and disappear, of hair): desinere (not to grow again, to drop off entirely; of hair). To drop with anything, stillare or (stronger) manare aliqua re (e.g., sanguine, cruore, sudore). To drop down (in other senses than the preceding) [Vid: FALL]: to drop from the clouds, de caelo delabi; ex astris delabi or decidere: he seemed as if he had dropped from the moon, *in alium quendam orbem delatus sibi videbatur.

To die, Vid:

To let anything drop; [Vid: To DROP, trans.] .

To drop in (= to call upon anybody unexpectedly, etc.). Anybody drops in, ecce ad me (nos, etc.) advenit aliquis (Plaut.); ecce aliquis venit (Cic., Caecin., 7, 20).