What is the Latin word for exterminate?

The usual Latin words for “exterminate” are exterminō, exstirpō, dēleō; also exstinguō, excidō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

English → Latin

“exterminate” in Latin

exterminōto expel, exile or banish; to abolish, extirpate or destroy exstirpōto uproot, root out; to eradicate, extirpate dēleōto destroy, raze, annihilate; to finish, terminate, put an end to; to delete (e.g. Ecclesiastical: from the book of life exstinguōto quench, extinguish, put out; to destroy, kill, slay, abolish excidōto fall out, from or down, tumble to the ground, collapse, break down, drop; to fall out or from involuntarily, slip out

The English word exterminate itself goes back to Latin terminus, through exterminātus.

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

exterminate

exterminate (PROP., to drive out of the boundaries of a place; ex, de, or ab aliquo loco), or exstirpare: delere: exstinguere: excidere: to exterminate utterly, alicujus rei radices evellere et extrahere penitus; omnes alicujus rei stirpes ejicere; aliquid funditus tollere: (The words are found in this connection and order.) exstirpare et funditus tollere (e.g., superstition; the last also of faults, passions): e natura rerum evellere (Cic.): to exterminate a tribe, etc., gentem penitus excidere (Velleius); gentem ad internecionem interimere: to exterminate the drones, universum fucorum genus ad occidionem perducere: to exterminate the males of his brother’s family, stirpem fratris virilem interimere (Liv.): to exterminate a family, *domum vacuam facere; stirpem interimere (Nep., Liv.); domum cum stirpibus eruere (after Verg., Georg., 2, 209): to exterminate the enemy, hostes delere, ad internecionem delere, redigere, adducere, or caedere; occidione caedere or occidere (especially by the sword): to be exterminated, funditus interire; totum perire; ad internecionem venire; ad internecionem perire (perire, by a pestilence): to exterminate the whole race of tyrants, genus tyrannorum ex hominum communitate exterminare (Cic.).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for exterminate?: The usual Latin words for “exterminate” are exterminō, exstirpō, dēleō; also exstinguō, excidō. 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.