SEPARATE Copy link • SEPARATE 1. 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). 2. 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