English → Latin
“separate” in Latin
sēparōto divide, separate; to distinguishprīvusone each; one's own, private, peculiar, particular; deprived ofdisiungōto disjoin, disunite, separate, part, divide; to unharness, unyokesēiungōto separate, sever or disunite; to excludedīvidōto divide, separate; to distribute, apportion; to distinguish as separatedirimōto separate, divide, take apart; to interrupt, disturb, delay; to frustrate, destroysēgregōto separate, divide; to remove; to segregatesēcernōto put apart, sunder, sever, separate, divide; to disjoin, part, dissociate, separate; to distinguish, discernsēmoveōto move apart, put aside, remove, separate, partsēclūdōto cut off
The English word separate itself goes back to Latin parō, through sēparātus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
separate adj.
separatus (apart): privus (single, alone): disjunctus, sejunctus (disjoined). Each has his separate seat and his separate dish, separatae singulis sedes et sua cuique mensa: to conclude a separate treaty (of peace), suum consilium ab reliquis separare (Vid: Caes., B.G. 7, 63).
separate v.
Transitively, dividere (to divide, so that the parts maybe distinguished from each other): dirimere (to dissolve the connection between things, to break a line of continuity): separare (to part one thing from another, so that it ceases to have any connection with it; opposed to conjungere): sejungere: disjungere (to cause those things to be distinct which otherwise would be united; ☞ abjungere for sejungere is classical, but very rare, Cic., Att., 2, 1; Caes., B.G., 7, 57, Krebs): segregare (PROP., to take out of a flock; hence, to remove, part): secernere (especially what is pure or good from the impure and bad): semovere (to put aside): secludere, discludere (to separate by anything placed between; e.g., of mountains or rivers which separate countries). (The words are found in this connection and order.) semovere et discludere: to separate one’s self from anybody, se sejungere ab aliquo: to separate one’s self from human society, *ab hominum consuetudine se removere; hominum consuetudini se excerpere (Sen., Ep., 5, 2). That can be separated, separabilis.
Intransitively, solvi: dissolvi: sejungi: discedere. (The words are found in this connection and order.) discedere ac sejungi
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for separate?
- The usual Latin words for “separate” are sēparō, prīvus, disiungō; also sēiungō, dīvidō, dirimō. 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.