English → Latin
“ado” in Latin
negōtiumbusiness, employment, occupation, affair; difficulty, pains, trouble, labor; matter, thing (= πρᾶγμα (prâgma))turbaturmoil, disorder, stir, disturbance, tumult, uproar, hubbub, commotion, trouble, confusion, disarray, brawl; mob, crowdtumultusan uproar; bustle, violent commotion, disturbance, tumult; turmoil, panic; a storm, tempest, thunderclap; a sudden outbrvixwith difficulty, with effort; scarcely, hardly, barely; hardly, merely, just, scarcelyaegersick, ill; weak, feeble; difficult, reluctant, troublesomesūdorsweat; moisture
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
ado
trouble, difficulty, negotium: with much ado, vix, aegre, aegerrime, magno labore, multo negotio, multa opera, multo labore or sudore. To have much ado, to suffer, aegre or aegerrime aliquid pati; to compel them, plurimum negotii habere, ut cogam, etc.: to get them across the river, aegerrime conficere ut flumen transeant. There was muck ado to get it done, difficulter atque aegre tiebat.
Bustle, tumult, turba or turbae (seldom), tumultus. To make much ado, tomultum facere, tumultuari: about nothing, excitare fluctus in simpulo, ut dicitur (proverbially, Cic., de Legg, 3, 16, 36); magno conatu magnas nugas dicere (if in words, Ter.).
With no more ado, sine mora or dilatione; statim.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for ado?
- The usual Latin words for “ado” are negōtium, turba, tumultus; also vix, aeger, sūdor. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.