English → Latin
“extirpate” in Latin
exstirpōto uproot, root out; to eradicate, extirpatedēleōto destroy, raze, annihilate; to finish, terminate, put an end to; to delete (e.g. Ecclesiastical: from the book of lifeexstinguōto quench, extinguish, put out; to destroy, kill, slay, abolishexcidōto fall out, from or down, tumble to the ground, collapse, break down, drop; to fall out or from involuntarily, slip out
The English word extirpate itself goes back to Latin stirps, through exstirpātus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
extirpate
Root out (PROP.), Vid:
IMPROPR., exstirpare: delere: exstinguere: excidere: thoroughly, 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, etc.); e natura rerum evellere (annihilate): to extirpate a nation, gentem penitus excidere: gentem ad internecionem interimere; his brother’s male offspring, stirpem fratris virilem interimere; a family, *domum vacuam facere: stirpem interimere: domum cum stirpibus eruere (after Verg., Georg., 2, 209); the drones, universorum fucorum genus ad occidionem perducere; all human feeling in anybody’s mind, omnem humanitatem ex animo alicujus exstirpare.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for extirpate?
- The usual Latin words for “extirpate” are exstirpō, dēleō, exstinguō; also 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.