English → Latin
“confound” in Latin
implicōto entangle, entwine; to infold, envelop, encircle; to embraceturbōto disturb, unsettle, agitate, perturb; to upsetconturbōto confuse, confound; to throw into confusion; to disturb, disquiet; to become bankrupt; to throw accounts into disarrayperturbōto confuse; to disturb or perturb, trouble or alarmmisceōto mix; to mingle; to intermingle; to unite; to combine; to share; to associate; of a disturbance of the natural order, permisceōto mix or mingle together thoroughly, commingle, intermingle, combine; to mix together, unite, join, combine; to throw icōnfundōto pour, mingle, stir up; to diffuse, suffuse, spread over; to unite, mix together, join, combine, mingleincutiōto strike on, against, into; to inspire with, inflict, exciteperimōto annihilate, extinguish, destroy; to hinder, prevent; to kill, slay
The English word confound itself goes back to Latin fundō, through cōnfundō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
confound
mix together in confusion or entanglement, implicare (PROP., and figuratively, ): turbare. conturbare: perturbare (to put into disorder, general term): conturbare and perturbare (also = to perplex, to disturb): miscere: permiscere (figuratively to throw into disorder by entangling together): confundere (to pour together; hence figuratively to put into disorder; then to disturb; to perplex): to confound anybody’s project, rationes alicui conturbare: to confound every thing, omnia perturbare or miscere: [Vid: CONFUSE.]
To take in a wrong sense, aliquem alium esse putare (to take anybody for anybody else): aliquid confundere aliqua re (to confound anything with anything, to mix; e.g., vera falsis).
To abash, pudorem alicui injicere, incutere: ruborem alicui afferre (to cause to blush, Tac., Ann., 13, 15, 2): I am confounded, pudor suffunditur mihi; by anything, pudore afficior aliqua re: alicujus mentem animumque perturbare; in perturbationem conjicere; consternare percutere (not percellere, Vid: above).
To destroy; to overthrow (plans, etc.), ad vanum, or ad irritum, or ad vanum et irritum redigere (avoid ad nihil redigere in this sense): perimere [Vid: the examples]: disturbare (e.g., nuptias, legem): to confound all a person’s plans, disturbare alicui omnes rationes: unless some accident or business had confounded his plan, nisi aliqui casus aut occupatio ejus consilium peremisset: all his hopes and plans were confounded by death, omnem spem atque omnia vitae consilia mors pervertit: thus was their whole undertaking confounded, ita frustra id inceptum iis fuit: to be confounded, irritum fieri; ad irritum cadere. recidere or venire: to confound one’s hopes, spem fallere, ludere, or destituere: to see one’s hopes confounded, spe excidere; a spe decidere; spe dejici spes ad irritum cadit or redigitur. [Vid. DESTROY, OVERTHROW]. To confound in argument, argumentis aliquem vincere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for confound?
- The usual Latin words for “confound” are implicō, turbō, conturbō; also perturbō, misceō, permisceō. 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.