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“rob” in Latin

The English word rob itself goes back to Latin raubō.

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

rob
privare aliquem aliqua re (to take away anything from a person, so that he suffers loss): spoliare, (more strongly) despoliare or exspoliare (to strip, deprive of). (The words are found in this connection and order.) detrahere spoliareque; spoliare nudareque; either a person or a thing, aliquem or aliquid, or a person of a thing, aliquem re; adimere (to take away): eripere (to snatch away), alicui aliquid; detrahere (to draw away or from), alicui aliquid, or (more rarely) aliquid de aliquo; auferre (to carry or take away), alicui aliquid or aliquid ab aliquo: depeculari (to steal from, to pillage, etc.). (The words are found in this connection and order.) spoliare aliquem aliqua re et depeculari: diripere (to plunder towns, etc.): expilare, compilare (to rifle) aliquid; the latter also aliqua re: fraudare aliquem re (to cheat of): nudare, denudare, exuere aliquem re (to deprive or make bare of anything): orbare aliquem re (to take anything which is dear to us, as children, hope, etc.): multare aliquem re (to take from by way of punishment, to amerce). To rob one of a kingdom, regno aliquem nudare, expellere, multare: to rob one of one’s country, patria aliquem multare, privare, expellere; in exsilium aliquem ejicere, pellere (by sending him into exile): to rob one of one’s whole fortune, aliquem omnibus bonis evertere, expellere; aliquem de fortunis omnibus deturbare: to rob one of one’s children, aliquem orbare liberis; liberos ab aliquo abstrahere: to rob one of one’s senses or understanding, aliquem deturbare de mente et sanitate: robbed, orbus aliqua re (and most participles of the verbs already given): robbed of one’s children, liberis orbatus: of the use of one’s limbs, membris captus: of sight and hearing, of one’s understanding, oculis et auribus, mente captus: of hope, spe orbatus.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for rob?
The usual Latin words for “rob” are spoliō, dēspoliō, exspoliō; also adimō, ēripiō. 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.