amoveo

From ab- (“from, away from”) +‎ moveō (“move”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aːˈmɔ.we.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈmɔː.ve.o]

āmoveō (present infinitive āmovēre, perfect active āmōvī, supine āmōtum); second conjugation

1. to remove from, move, put, or take away
2. (especially with reflexive) to withdraw, retire
3. to take away by stealth, steal, or snatch
4. (by extension) to avert, allay
5. (by extension) to get rid of, exile, banish
6. (of abstract ideas) to put away, cast off, dissociate

• (remove): tollō, auferō, āvertō, ēripiō, eximō, adimō, abdūcō, exhauriō
• (retire): facessō, dēcēdō, discēdō, deficiō, cēdō, concēdō, excēdō, abscēdō, regredior, subtrahō, subdūcō, inclīnō, recēdō, recipiō, vertō, referō
• (steal): dēmō, rapiō, auferō, fraudō, abdūcō, āvertō, dīripiō, adimō, ēripiō, corripiō, tollō, praedor, legō, agō
• (banish): abdō, ablēgō, dēpellō, eximō, expellō, exterminō, fugō, auferō, pellō, prōiciō, relēgō, submoveō

• (antonym(s) of “retire”): prōgredior, prōdeō, prōcēdō, prōficiō, aggredior, ēvehō, incēdō, accēdō, adeō

• āmōtiō
• āmōtus

• “amoveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “amoveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• amoveo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to exonerate oneself from blame: culpam a se amovere