English → Latin
“overthrow” in Latin
dēstruōto destroy, demolish, ruindēmōliorto demolish, tear downdīruōto overthrow, demolish, destroy, ruin down; to scatterprōruōto tear or pull down; to overthrow or overturn; to demolishēvertōto turn upside down, overturn, reverse; to upset, disturb, agitate, roil; to throw down, cause to fallpervertōto overthrow; to subvert or corruptsubvertōto overturn, upset, overthrow; to destroy, subvertdēleōto 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, abolishtollōto raise, lift up, elevate; to remove, take away, steal, rob; to destroy, eliminate, annul
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
overthrow v.
destruere (to take asunder; opposed to construere): demoliri (to break down, and destroy): diruere, proruere (to separate by throwing down, to destroy): evertere (by digging and tearing up what is fixed in the ground; opposed to fundare; e.g., urbem, rempublicam: reipublicae fundamenta): pervertere (by pushing down what stands fast): subvertere (by secretly undermining; e.g., imperium, leges, libertatem, etc.): delere (blot out; hence, deprive of its existence): exstinguere (to put out, and so cause to cease; hope, spem, etc.): tollere (to take away; destroy, urbem, legem, etc.): to overthrow utterly, funditus tollere, evertere, etc.
To overthrow plans, etc., ad vanum, or ad irritum, or ad vanum et irritum redigere (☞ avoid ad nihil redigere in this sense): perimere: disturbare (e.g., nuptias, legem): to overthrow all a person’s plans, disturbare alicui omnes rationes: to overthrow one’s opinion, opiaione aliquem dejicere.
overthrow s.
Act of overthrowing, destructio; demolitio; or by the verbs.
Destruction, ruin, obitus (the mildest term; often used for natural death): occasus (of a person or thing). (The words are found in this connection and order.) obitus occasusque; obitus et occasus; ruinae; occasus et ruinae; interitus (a ceasing to be; of a person or thing; stronger than occasus). (The words are found in this connection and order.) occasus interitusque; interitus atque obitus; exitium (tragical end of a person or thing): pernicies (destruction or violent end; occasioned by a living agent).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for overthrow?
- The usual Latin words for “overthrow” are dēstruō, dēmōlior, dīruō; also prōruō, ēvertō, pervertō. 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.