take from Copy link • take from: v. take away. To t. from one to give to another, transfĕro, tŭli, lātum, 3: to t. from the right hand and put in the left, in dexteram manum de sinistra transferre, Sen. Ben. 5, 8, 1: I have t.n that passage from Dicaearchus, istum locum a Dicaearcho transtuli, Cic. Att. 6, 2: v. adopt.