English → Latin
“concern, concernment” in Latin
negōtiumbusiness, employment, occupation, affair; difficulty, pains, trouble, labor; matter, thing (= πρᾶγμα (prâgma))causacause, reason; case, claim, contention; cause, judicial process, lawsuitcūracare, concern, thought; pains, industry, diligence, exertion; anxiety, grief, sorrowsollicitūdōanxiety, worry, concern, uneasiness; watchful concern, solicitude; anxious care or attention, painstakingnessānxietāsanxiety; carefulnessparvussmall; little; puny; cheap; petty; trifling; ignorable; unimportant
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
concern, concernment
res: negotium (business): causa (lawsuit; then, any business one may have undertaken): cura (the care of any business, the administration, the office): sollicitudo (solicitude): anxietas (anxiety): an important concern, res major: a concern of little importance, res minuta or parva: this affair caused me some concern, sollicitus eram hac de re: nothing gave me more concern than etc., nihil me magis sollicitabat, quam etc.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for concern, concernment?
- The usual Latin words for “concern, concernment” are negōtium, causa, cūra; also sollicitūdō, ānxietās, parvus. 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.