English → Latin
“confinement” in Latin
inclūsiōconfinement, imprisonmentcircumscrīptiōcircle, circumference; boundary, outline, contour; cheating, fraudcohibitiōrestriction, confinement, repressioncoërcitiōcoercion, restraint, repressioncaptīvitāscaptivity, bondage; capture; blindnesspuerperiumchildbirth, delivery, childbed, confinement, lying-in; newborn child, infantīraire, anger, wrathlactōto contain or give milk, suckle; to suck milk from the breast; to be full of milkservōto maintain, keep; to protect, save, keep, guard, safeguard, watch over; to give heed to, pay attention to; watch, obserretineōto keep or hold back, detain, restrain, retain, confine, contain; delay; to hold in check, repress, check, stop, stay; t
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
confinement
inclusio (act of inclosing): circumscriptio (limitation): cohibitio (act of restraining late: irae, Lactant.): coercitio (act of coercing, Liv., Sen.).
Imprisonment, in custodia inclusio: captivitas (captivity): to be in confinement, in custodia haberi or servari; custodia teneri or retineri: to keep anybody in close confinement, aliquem clauso conclavi servare, aliquem clausum asservare: to release anybody from confinement, aliquem e custodia emittere: to deliver from confinement (by force), aliquem e custodia eripere: not to bear confinement to the house, durare in aedibus non posse.
Child-bed, puerperium: to die in one’s confinement, ex partu perire (after Suet., Calig., 12).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for confinement?
- The usual Latin words for “confinement” are inclūsiō, circumscrīptiō, cohibitiō; also coërcitiō, captīvitās, puerperium. 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.