English → Latin
“agitate” in Latin
moveōto move, stir, set in motion; to disturb, shake, remove; to arouse, excite, promote, producecommoveōto move something in violent motion, move; shake, stir, shift, agitate; to remove something from somewhere, carry away, agitōto act, behave, do, or make persistently or unremittingly; to put something in motion, drive, impel; drive by rowing, roquatiōto shake, agitate, batter, shatter, demolish, overthrow, rend; to wield, brandish; to move, touch, excite, affectquassōto shake repeatedly, to quake; to wave or flourish; to weakenconcutiōto shake violently (or together); to agitate; to terrify or alarmconquassōto shake violently; to shatter; to unsettle or disturbincitōto set in rapid motion, hasten, urge forwards, speed up, accelerate, quicken; to cause to grow larger; augment, increaselabefaciōto cause to totter, shake, loosen, make ready to fall; to cause to waver, shake, weaken; to weaken; overthrow, ruin, deslabefactōto weaken; to cause to shake or totter; to destroy, ruin; to overthrow
The English word agitate itself goes back to Latin agō, through agitātus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
agitate
PROP.
to put in motion, movere, commovere: agitare (to move to and fro, up and down, etc.): quatere, quassare, concutere, conquassare (to shake): incitare (to put in rapid motion; opposed to tardare): labefacere, labefactare (to make to totter). ImPROP.
to disturb, commovere (to move): turbare, conturbare (to disturb): percutere, percellere (figuratively, to strike violently, make a violent impression; the former of a sudden, the latter of an abiding impression and its consequences): the mind, animum impellere, gravius afficere, commovere, permovere: anybody, aliquem percutere; alicujus animum graviter commovere: the state (seditiously), rempublicam quassare, concutere, convellere, labefactare, dilacerare (the last, to tear to pieces): violently, rempublicam atrociter agitare (Sall., Jug., 37, 1): the empire, regnum concutere, labefactare; imperium percutere: the people, civium animos sollicitare; cives, plebem, etc., sollicitare, concitare: aeditionem, tumultum facere, concitare; seditionem commovere, concire (of excitingthem to an uproar).
A question, agere rem or de re (general term to treat it, discuss it): disputare, disserere de aliqua re (of the disctissions of learned men, the latter, especially, of a continued discourse): sermo est de re (of a conversational discussion, whether of two persons or more): aliquid in controversiam vocaro, deducere, adducere (to call it into dispute). Observe, agitare quaestionem is, to think it over, weigh it in the mind. To be agitated, in controversia esse or versari; in controversiam deductum esse; in contentione esse or versari; in disceptatione versari: to begin to be agitated, in contentionem venire; in controversiam vocari, adduci, deduci.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for agitate?
- The usual Latin words for “agitate” are moveō, commoveō, agitō; also quatiō, quassō, concutiō. 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.