English → Latin
“strike out” in Latin
dēleōto destroy, raze, annihilate; to finish, terminate, put an end to; to delete (e.g. Ecclesiastical: from the book of lifeexstinguōto quench, extinguish, put out; to destroy, kill, slay, abolishindūcōto lead, bring or conduct in or into somewhere; to bring forward, exhibit, represent; to bring into or before a courtērādōto scrape away, pare; to abolish, eradicate, remove; to erase, delete
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
strike out
To destroy, erase, delere, exstinguere (general term, to destroy): inducere (to erase writing with the blunt end of the style): eradere (to scratch out, erase). To strike anybody out of a list, nomen alicujus eximere de tabulis (of senators); eradere aliquem albo senatorio (Tac., Ann., 4, 42, fin.); a name from a book, nomen tollere ex libro.
To invent, find, Vid: STRIKE TOGETHER, collidere (e.g., manus): ☞ manus complodere is of the Silver Age.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for strike out?
- The usual Latin words for “strike out” are dēleō, exstinguō, indūcō; also ērādō. 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.