English → Latin
“concern” in Latin
sollicitūdōanxiety, worry, concern, uneasiness; watchful concern, solicitude; anxious care or attention, painstakingnesscorheart; soul; mindarsart, skill, craft, handicraft; trade, occupation, employment; cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagem
The English word concern itself goes back to Latin cernō, through concerno.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
concern v.
to interest, aliquid mea interest (something interests me): aliquid ad me pertinet (relates to or affects me).
To concern (= interest) one’s self about, aliquid ad me pertinere puto: aliquid mihi curae or cordi (not curae cordique) est: aliquid foveo (I interest myself for anything, or promote it; e.g., artes): I am concerned (= interested) for anybody; i. e., endeavor to promote his cause, etc., cupio alicujus causa (Vid: Cic., ad Div. 13, 64, 1; Roscius, Am., 51, 149): alicui studeo: alicujus sum studiosus: alicui faveo (I interest myself in his favor): alicui tribuo (I interest myself for him in an active manner, or take an active part in his interest; Vid: Corte, Cic., ad Div. 13, 9, 2). ☞ All in the sense of concerning one’s self about anything, or the interests of anybody: incumbere in or ad aliquid (to apply one’s self to anything with diligence): anniti de aliqua re or ad aliquid faciendum, eniti, ut etc. (to take pains about anything): commendatum sibi habere aliquid (to take charge of anything, to commend it to one’s self): to concern one’s self very much about anything, incumbere toto animo et studio omni in aliquid; summo studio administrare aliquid; imprimis mihi aliquid curae est; egregia est alicujus industria in aliqua re; eniti et contendere, quam maxime possis, ut etc.: omni ope anniti, ut etc.: to concern one’s self (or to care) about nothing so much, as etc., nihil antiquius or prius habere, quam etc., nihil antiquius alicui est aliqua re.
To come under one’s province, to regard, etc., pertinere ad etc. (to concern): attinere ad, etc. (to belong to, to regard anybody): spectare aliquid or ad aliquid (to tend towards): attingere aliquem (to refer to anybody. ☞ Not pertingere; Vid: Ochsner, Cic., Ec., p. 260): It concerns a certain matter, agitur res or de aliqua re (it regards anything, i. e., anything is at stake); e.g., liberty, libertas or de libertate. It concerns me, hoc ad me (sc. pertinet); hoc mea refert (that concerns me): res mea agitur (it regards my cause = me): concerning or regarding, however, etc., i. e., such or such a thing (in continuing a discourse), jam or autem (Vid: Hotting., Cic., Ecl., p. 65); quod ad me attinet (with regard to myself, in which case quod pertinet ad me would be quite erroneous; Vid: Herzog, Caes. B.G., 5, 25): It concerns you, res tua agitur; res ad te spectat; de te fabula narratur (= we are speaking of you, or by any similar phrase): what does it concern me? quid ad me? quid mihi cum illa re? what concerns us more? quod magis ad nos pertinet (Hor., Sat., 2, 6, 73)?
To be concerned (= disturbed), in sollicitudine esse; sollicitudine or aegritudine affectum esse: to be concerned about anything, aliquid aegre ferre: (much) alicujus rei sollicitudine vel maxime urgeri: I am much concernd about your bad state of health, incredibili sum sollicitudine de tua valetudine.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for concern?
- The usual Latin words for “concern” are sollicitūdō, cor, ars. 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.