Latin Death Vocabulary

Here are some expressions from Classical Latin dealing with death. In general, the infinitives need to be conjugated.

• If you want to refer to someone's departure from life, you could use a conjugated version of one of the following phrases:
  
  
  • [(de) vita] decedere
    
  • (ex) vita excedere
    
  • ex vita abire
    
  • mortem obire
    
  • de vita exire
    
  • de (ex) vita migrare
  
  
• In Latin you can "give up the ghost" by saying:
  
  
  • animam edere or efflare
    
  • extremum vitae spiritum edere
  
  
• Someone who dies before his time dies in these ways:
  
  
  • mature decedere
    
  • subita morte exstingui
    
  • mors immatura or praematura
  
  
• Committing suicide can be done in a variety of ways. Here are Latin expressions connoting self-inflicted death.
  
  
  • mortem sibi consciscere
    
  • se vita privare
    
  • vitae finem facere
  
  
• Taking poison for suicide:
  
  
  • veneno sibi mortem consciscere
    
  • poculum mortis exhaurire
    
  • poculum mortiferum exhaurire
  
  
• Killing someone violently:
  
  
  • plagam extremam infligere
    
  • plagam mortiferam infligere
  
  
• A patriotic Roman death might be described using the following:
  
  
  • mortem occumbere pro patria
    
  • sanguinem suum pro patria effundere
    
  • vitam profundere pro patria
    
  • se morti offerre pro salute patriae

Source:
C. Meissner's Latin Phrase Book

Please let me know if I've made an error.

Suggestion from a reader: vixit = 'he lived'.

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