English → Latin
“forego” in Latin
dīmittōto send away, send forth, send off, dismiss, let go; to renounce, give up, abandon, forego, forsake; to pardon, forgive,dēcēdōto withdraw, retire, depart, leave or go away; to desert or abandon, give up, resign, forego; yield; to yield, make way,sententiaa way of thinking, view, opinion, judgement or sentence; a purpose, intention, will (one's thinking in respect to the fudēsistōto stand apart; to cease, desist from (usually coupled with ablative)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
forego
To resign, renunciare aliquid or alicui rei (of enjoyments; e.g., ostreis in omnem vitam): dimittere or remittere aliquid (to let go): decedere or desistere aliqua re and de aliqua re (to desist from; e.g., sententia or de sententia: desistere also, with infinitive): absistere aliqua re (also with infinitive, but no where used by Cic.; Vid: Görenz. Cic., De Leg., 1, 13, 39). To forego a project, desistere, absistere incepto: to forego one’s right, de jure suo cedere or decedere; jus dimittere or remittere: to forego anybody’s friendship, alicui amicitiam renunciare: to forego honor and fame, honorem et gloriam abjicere.
To go before (obsolete); [Vid: To PRECEDE].
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for forego?
- The usual Latin words for “forego” are dīmittō, dēcēdō, sententia; also dēsistō. 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.