English → Latin
“afraid” in Latin
ānxiusafeared, anxious, troubled, uneasytrepidusnervous, jumpy, agitated; perilous, alarming; fearful, trepidatioussollicitusthoroughly moved, agitated or disturbed; restless, unceasing; troubled, engaged, upset, disturbed, anxious, solicitous; terreōto frighten, terrify, alarm; to deter by terror, scare (away)exterreōto strike with terror, frighten, affright, scare, terrifytimeōto fear, be afraid of, apprehend, be apprehensive of; to be afraid, to fear, to be apprehensiveextimēscōto be greatly frightened; to dreadreformīdōto dread
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
afraid
anxius, trepidus (full of anxiety, confusion): sollicitus (anxious from fear of a future evil): formidinis plenus: territus (frightened): exterritus, perterlitus (dreadfully frightened). Afraid of anything, timens, extimescens, reformidans, etc., aliquid (if a participle will suitthe meaning): aliqua re or metu alicujus rei perterritus: sollicitus de re aliqua. Not afraid of death, non timidus ad mortem: non timidus mori (poetical).
To be afraid, anxium, trepidum, etc., esse: of anything, timere (aliquem or aliquid), metuere (aliquem or aliquid), extimescere, pertimescere, vereri (aliquem or aliquid), pavere (aliquid or ad aliquid), horrere, formidare, reformidare (Syn. in FEAR): in metu ponere or habere aliquid. (The words are found in this connection and order), metuere ac timere; metuere atque horrere. Not to be afraid, sine metu (timore) esse; metu vacare; bonum habere animum: bono esse animo (to be of good courage): securum esse (to apprehend no danger). Do not be afraid, bono sis animo; bonum habe animum; noli timere or laborare; omitte timorem. Not to be afraid of anybody or anything, contemnere aliquem or aliquid (to despise). To be afraid for or about anybody or anything, metuo, timeo alicui (rei), or de aliquo, aliqua re; extimesco, pertimesco de re, vereor alicui rei. To begin to be afraid, ad timorem se convertere. To be a little afraid, subtimere (of anything, aliquid; that, etc., ne); subvereri (ne, etc.). To make anybody afraid of one, sui timorem alicui injicere. Observe, that “not,” “lest,” are translated by ne after verbs of fearing; “that - not,” “lest - not,” by ut or ne non (stronger); and that the English future becomes in Latin the present subjunctive, Vid. FEAR.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for afraid?
- The usual Latin words for “afraid” are ānxius, trepidus, sollicitus; also terreō, exterreō, timeō. 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.