English → Latin
“evacuate” in Latin
ēvomōto vomit upexspuōto spit out; to ejectexscreōto cough up, to spit out by coughing, hawksoleōto be accustomed, used to, in the habit ofsubdūcōto draw from under or below; draw, lift or pull up, raise; to draw or haul up onto land, beach; to draw, take or lead aw
The English word evacuate itself goes back to Latin vacuō, through ēvacuātus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
evacuate
To empty, Vid:
To void by any of the excretory passages, evomere: exspuere: exscreare: per os reddere (of bringing up); *per alvum reddere.
To purge the bowels, etc., alvum inanire (Plin.); alvum purgare, solvere, subducere, dejicere; or dejicere only. Anything is as good as a purgative for evacuating the bowels, aliquid medicamenti instar est ad eliciendas alvos (Plin.).
To withdraw troops from. To evacuate a town, urbe excedere (especially of soldiers): urbem relinquere (to quit it from necessity): copias ex urbe educere (of the general): praesidium ex urbe removere (to withdraw a garrison): to evacuate a country, (ex) finibus excedere (general term, especially of soldiers); copias ex finibus educere (of the general). Thus Croton was evacuated, ita Crotone excessum est. Valerius and Curio found Sardinia and Sicily evacuated, nacti vacuas ab imperiis Sardiniam Valerius, Curio Siciliam (i. e., the commander-in-chief had quitted the islands): ☞ vacuefacere, general term for to make empty (e.g., the benches, subsellia, Cic., where the reading is not quite certain); but vacuefacere Scyrum (Nep.) is, to remove all its inhabitants.
Annul; Vid.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for evacuate?
- The usual Latin words for “evacuate” are ēvomō, exspuō, exscreō; also soleō, subdūcō. 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.