English → Latin
“leave” in Latin
concessiōpermission; grant, concessionpermissiōyielding, ceding, surrender; leave, permissionpotestāspower, ability; mastery, control; authority, jurisdictioncōpiasupply, abundance, copiousness, wealth, riches; plenty, fulness, multitude; opportunity, facilities (the means of doing arbitriumthe decision of an arbiter, arbitration; judgement, decision, opinion; discretion, liberal decision; arbitrary decision,licetto be allowed; to be permitted; although, even ifconcēdōto depart, retire or withdraw, come away, come, go away; to disappear or vanish; to relinquish, concede, relent, subsideveniōto come (to a place), come in, arrive, reach; of metaphorical movement in general; to approachlinquōto leave, quit, forsake, depart fromrelinquōto abandon, forsake, desert; to relinquish, leave (behind); to depart (from)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
leave s.
Permission, concessio: permissio (concessu, petmissu in ablative only): potestas: copia: arbitrium: licentia [SYN. in PERMISSION]. To give anybody leave, veniam, potestatem, licentiam alicui dare; to do anything, alicujus rei or aliquid faciendi potestatem alicui facere or concedere; licentiam alicui permittere, ut, etc.: permittere, concedere alicui; to do anything, aliquid: to give children leave to play, pueris ludendi licentiam dare; to give anybody free leave, infinitam alicui licentiam dare: to ask or apply for leave, veniam petere: to obtain or get leave, veniam accipere, impetrare; datur alicui potestas, copia; fit alicui potestas: to have obtained leave, habere potestatem, concessam licentiam; mihi licet, permissum or concessum est: by your leave, permissu, or concessu, tuo; si per te licitum erit: by your good leave, pace tua; pace quod fiat tua; bona venia tua liceat; bona, venia me audies (if leave to speak is the thing meant); bona hoc venia tua dixerim (apologetic form for a frank declaration): without my leave, me non concedente, me non consulto: me invito (if it had been applied for): leave of absence, commeatus, -ūs (PROP. of soldiers, but also as a general term): to apply for leave of absence, commeatum petere: to grant leave of absence, commeatum dare alicui.
Farewell: to take leave (of visitors, etc.), salvere aliquem jubeo; alicui valedicere (Silver Age): to take a final leave, supremum valedicere (†): to lake French leave = to go away without taking leave of anybody, aliquem insalutatum relinquere (☞ Verg., Aen., 9, 228); clam se subducere de circulo; (also) = to do anything without permission, *venia a nullo data facere aliquid; veniam non petere: to take leave of the world (i. e., to die), renuntiare vitas (Suet., Galb., 11).
leave v.
To quit, desert, forsake, linquere (this word belongs, strictly speaking, to poetry, or a poetical style; Cic. uses it only when his style assumes a poetical or impassioned character, as in his speeches): relinquere (to leave behind, a place or person): derelinquere (to desert, abandon): cedere aliquo loco, or ex aliquo loco (to retire from a place with reason): decedere aliquo loco, de or ex aliquo loco (to go from a place where one’s business still lies): discedere ab aliquo or loco, a or e loco (to go away, separate one’s selffrom a person or place): excedere loco, or e loco (to go from the neighborhood): digredi ab aliquo, or de aliqua re (to depart from): egredi loco, or a or ex loco (to go out of): deserere (to desert, leave IMPROP.). (The words are found in this connection and order.) relinquere et deserere; deserere et relinquere; destituere (to leave in the lurch); destituere et relinquere [vid., also, ABANDON]: to leave a province, e provincia discedere (to go away for a time, with intention to return): decedere provincia, or de provincia (to leave entirely, to retire from the government of a province): decedere ex provincia (the same; but with more immediate reference to the act of quitting the country): to leave school, scholam egredi (to go out of the school): divertere a schola et magistris (to cease to go to school); to leave house and home, de bonis suis decedere: the soul leaves the body, animus post mortem (e) corpore excedit.
To reject [Vid: REJECT].
To bequeath, legare [Vid: BEQUEATH].
To permit, sinere, permittere (permitte me in meam quietem, leave me to, Apul.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for leave?
- The usual Latin words for “leave” are concessiō, permissiō, potestās; also cōpia, arbitrium, licet. 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.