English → Latin
“confusion” in Latin
perturbātiōconfusion; disturbance, disorder; commotionimplicātiōentanglement; involvementtrepidātiōagitation, confusion, trepidation; the act of trembling or twitchingturbaturmoil, disorder, stir, disturbance, tumult, uproar, hubbub, commotion, trouble, confusion, disarray, brawl; mob, crowdtumultusan uproar; bustle, violent commotion, disturbance, tumult; turmoil, panic; a storm, tempest, thunderclap; a sudden outbrpudorA sense of shame; shamefacedness, shyness; ignominy, disgrace; humiliation; Modesty, decency, propriety, scrupulousness,ruborredness; blush; modestyverēcundiaknowing one's place, regarded as a virtue; coyness, modesty; shyness, bashfulness; shame, awedisturbatiōdestructionēversiōexpulsion; destruction; revolution
The English word confusion itself goes back to Latin fundō, through confusio.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
confusion
perturbatio (disturbance of the order of anything, as act; e.g., of an army, exercitus): perturbatio ordinis (disturbance in the succession or order of anything): implicatio (e.g., rei familiaris, confusion in one’s accounts or circumstances): mens turbata (confusion of the understanding): perturbatio (absolute consternation): trepidatio (trembling from fear of an approaching danger, etc.): turba (the noise which proceeds when every thing is in wild confusion): tumultus (the impetuous or boisterous confusion and noise of an assembly, tumult, commotion): General confusion, omnium rerum perturbatio: a general confusion takes place, omnibus locis trepidatur: to cause a general confusion, omnia miscere et turbare: to put into confusion, [Vid: To CONFUSE]: to fall into confusion, turbari; conturbari: perturbari.
Blushing: pudor (shame): rubor (blushing): verecundia (shame, in a good sense): to my confusion, *cum magno meo pudore: dedecus (disgrace): to our confusion, cum nostra ignominia; cum nostro dedecore: with much confusion, cum summo probro; cum probro atque dedecore; cum ignominia et dedecore.
Destruction, disturbatio: eversio, [Vid: DESTRUCTION]: exstinctio (figuratively extermination): ruinae: interitus. (the words are found in this connexion and order.) occasus et ruinae: occasus interitusque. Vid: DESTRUCTION.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for confusion?
- The usual Latin words for “confusion” are perturbātiō, implicātiō, trepidātiō; also turba, tumultus, pudor. 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.