English → Latin
“concentrate” in Latin
colligōto gather, draw, bring or collect (together), assemble, pick up; contract, draw up, compress, concentrate; harvest; to mcōgōto collect, assemble, gather together; to restrict or confine in space; to force, compel, urge, encourage, finaglecontrahōto draw in, bring or drag several objects together; collect, assemble, gather, amass; to bring about, accomplish, execut
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
concentrate
colligere: cogere: in unum conferre, contrahere: to concentrate troops, copias in unum contrahere or in unum locum contrahere (Caes.) or cogere (Cic.): to concentrate one’s thoughts, cogitationes suas ad unam rem dirigere (after Cic., Acad., 2, 20, 66): mentem advertere ad unam rem: continere mentem ac cogitationem, ne vagetur (after Cic.). to be concentrated (of troops), inter se coire (Caes., Lividus).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for concentrate?
- The usual Latin words for “concentrate” are colligō, cōgō, contrahō. 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.