English → Latin
“remove” in Latin
gradusa step, pace; a grade; a stage, degreeāmoveōto remove from, move, put, or take away; to withdraw, retire; to take away by stealth, steal, or snatchremoveōto remove, take awayabdūcōto lead away or aside, take away, bring away, carry off; detach, remove; to take (with one) to dine; to take asidedēdūcōto lead or bring out or away, divert; escort, accompany, conduct (out of one's house as a mark of respect or for protectablēgōto send off or away (on a mission); to remove, keep at a distance, banish, send into exile; (of a word) to remove or delāmandōto send forth or away, removerelēgōto despatch, send away; to banish, remove to a distance; to put aside, reject, remove; shiftāmōliorto remove from; move or carry away; to avert, prevent; repel, refuteāvertōto turn away, turn off, avert; to avoid, divert, deviate; to remove; to steal, embezzle, appropriate to oneself
The English word remove itself goes back to Latin moveō, through removeo.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
remove s.
Removal, Vid:
Course of dishes [Vid: COURSE].
Degree, gradus (e.g., of consanguinity).
remove v.
Transitively, PROP., amovere: removere: abducere: deducere (to lead away; the latter usually followed by a (ab) or de, with an ablative of the place whence): ablegare (to send away in order to be quit of anybody, under some pretext): amandare: relegare (to banish the latter to a definite place; both with the idea of the disgrace affecting the person sent away): amoliri (to remove a person or thing with pain or effort): avertere (to turn away a thing unpleasant to the sense; Vid: Cic. N.D., 2, 56, extr.): subducere: submovere (to remove gradually and unobservedly): depellere: repellere: propulsare (to drive away by force; from a place, ex loco expellere, ejicere): to remove the cloth, mensam tollere (in the Roman sense): to remove one from an office, loco suo aliquem movere (general term): removere, amovere, or submovere aliquem a munere (especially from an office of state). To remove a magistrate, abrogare or abolere alicui magistratum (both in the Roman sense; and abolere with the notion of total and final removal): to remove a senator, movere aliquem a or de senatu; movere aliquem loco senatorio. To remove anybody from a public office, a republica aliquem removere: to remove a governor, aliquem provincia demovere; aliquem expellere potestate: to be removed, successorem accipere (to receive a successor).
Figuratively, demere, adimere (to take away, deprive of a thing, so that a person has it no longer): auferre (to take away): tollere (to take away entirely, remove wholly, destroy): eripere (to snatch away, to take away by force): detrahere, subtrahere (to withdraw: subtrahere, secretly): privare aliquem aliqua re (to deprive): intercludere: praecludere (to obstruct, stop; e.g., spiritum or animam, vocem): levare, liberare aliqua re (to remove a burden, free from anything oppressive): abstergere: abigere (to shake off, drive away anything unpleasant, especially fear, etc.): evellere, excutere (to pluck out, shake off, entirely to remove): to remove hope, spem adimere, auferre, incidere, tollere, praecidere (quite to cut off). To remove mountains, montes sede sua, moliri (Liv., 9, 3). To remove fear from anybody, metum alicui tollere, abstergere: metu aliquem levare or liberare: aliquem metu exonerare: timorem alicui eripere. To remove doubt or hesitation, dubitationem alicui tollere or eximere; scrupulum alicui evellere; religionem alicui extrahere ex animo: to remove an error, errorem alicui extrahere, eripeie, extorquere (implying the notion of resistance).
Intransitively, se movere: se amovere: abire: discedere (to depart, go away): ex oculis or e conspectu abire; e conspectu recedere (to remove one’s self out of sight of anybody): excedere: evadere: erumpere (out from a place; the latter = to break or burst out from; Vid: Cic., Cat., 2, 1, 1, abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit): se subducere (gradually and imperceptibly; also, with clam; e.g., de circulo). To remove one’s self in haste, celerrime abire; e conspectu fugere or evolare; se eripere or proripere: to remove one’s self out of the way, de via deflectere or declinare; aberrare via, deerrare itinere (to wander from the way, to wander against one’s will): to remove one’s self too far from the camp, a castris longius procedere: never to have removed one’s self from a place, numquam ex loco (urbe) afuisse.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for remove?
- The usual Latin words for “remove” are gradus, āmoveō, removeō; also abdūcō, dēdūcō, ablēgō. 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.