Leave This Life
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
Give Up the Ghost
In Latin you can "give up the ghost" by saying:- animam edere or efflare
- extremum vitae spiritum edere
Before One's Time
Someone who dies before his time dies in these ways:- mature decedere
- subita morte exstingui
- mors immatura or praematura
Suicide
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
Suicide by Poison
Taking poison for suicide:- veneno sibi mortem consciscere
- poculum mortis exhaurire
- poculum mortiferum exhaurire
Violent Murder
Killing someone violently:- plagam extremam infligere
- plagam mortiferam infligere
Noble Suicide
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
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