English → Latin
“pass away” in Latin
praetereōto pass by or go by; to surpass or excel; to disregard, neglect, omit or missexeōto exit, depart, go forth, come forth; to avoid, evade; to escapeeffluōto flow or run forth or out; escape; to go out, issue forth; to vanish, disappear, melt awayextrahōto drag, pull or draw forth or out; extract, remove; to extricate, release; draw out, extract, eradicate, rescue; to dralāborto slip, slide, glide; (of fluids) to flow gently; to fall, sink down; to slip, stumbleāvolōto fly off or away; flee awayfugiōto flee, fly, take flight, escape, depart, run, run away, recede; to speed, hasten, pass quickly; to avoid, shun, be aveaufugiōto flee, run away, escape; vanish; to flee from
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
pass away
or OFF, praeterire (general term; ☞ praeterlabi, in this sense, is not Latin): exire (to come to an end; of time; e.g., eorum nullus sine ebrietate exit dies): effluere (of time, to flow away without being usefully employed): extrahi (to be let slip without being well employed; of points of time): to pass away imperceptibly, labi: to pass away quickly, avolare, fugere, aufugere (all of time): to suffer time to pass away, tempus extrahere aliqua re (e.g., triduum disputationibus excusationibusque extrahitur): not to let a day pass away without, etc., nullum pati esse diem, quin, etc.: to let one day pass away after another, diem ex die ducere; diem de die differre.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for pass away?
- The usual Latin words for “pass away” are praetereō, exeō, effluō; also extrahō, lābor, āvolō. 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.