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“put off” in Latin
pōnōto place; to put; to lay; to ordain; to appoint; to make (something); to set up; to pitch (camp)dēpōnōto lay, set, put or place aside or away; deposit; to resign, get rid of, give up; to wager, stake, betexuōto extract, take out, draw out, pull off; to free; to take off (clothes, shoes); doffextrūdōto thrust or drive out; to draw outdifferōto carry different ways, spread, scatter, disperse, separate; to distract, disquiet or disturb someone; confound; to sprprōferōto bring out, bring forth; to make known, produce in public, publish, reveal; to appear, show oneselfcōnferōto bring or collect together, gather; unite, join, connect; to bring or place together or near, set in opposition, opposprōcrāstinōto put off until tomorrow; to defer, delay, procrastinateprōdūcōto lead or bring forth, forward or out; to conduct to; bring before, present; to draw or stretch out, lengthen, extendprōlātōto lengthen, extend, enlarge; to prolong
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
put off
(PROP.) ponere, deponere (to lay down); exuere (e.g., vestem); abjicere (to cast away). To put off a garment, vestem ponere, or deponere, or abjicere (of a garment thrown or wrapped round one); vestem exuere (of a garment drawn on).
To sell, extrudere (merces).
To defer, procrastinate, differre, proferre, conferre (with this difference, that with differre the term may be definite or indefinite; with proferre and conferre, for which we rarely find transferre, the term is always definite); procrastinare, (The words are found in this connection and order.) differre et procrastinare (to put off to the next day, especially in a dilatory way): producere, prolatare (to delay, procrastinate): rejicere, reservare (to reserve for another time what ought to be done now). To put off from one day to another, diem ex die ducere or prolatare: to put off for some days, aliquot dies proferre or promovere; prodere (nuptias) aliquot dies.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for put off?
- The usual Latin words for “put off” are pōnō, dēpōnō, exuō; also extrūdō, differō, prōferō. 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.