What is the Latin word for derange?

The usual Latin words for “derange” are turbō, conturbō, perturbō; also misceō, permisceō, cōnfundō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“derange” in Latin

turbōto disturb, unsettle, agitate, perturb; to upset conturbōto confuse, confound; to throw into confusion; to disturb, disquiet; to become bankrupt; to throw accounts into disarray perturbōto confuse; to disturb or perturb, trouble or alarm misceōto 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 i cōnfundōto pour, mingle, stir up; to diffuse, suffuse, spread over; to unite, mix together, join, combine, mingle aliēnōto change the nature of a person or thing into something else; to make something the property of another, transfer by sa

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

derange

turbare; conturbare; perturbare (to put in disorder; conturbare and perturbare are also equivalent to, to make amazed): miscere; permiscere (figuratively, to throw in disorder one with another): confundere (to cast together; thence, figuratively, to throw together into one mass, and thereby put into disorder; equivalent to, to make amazed or confused): to derange the stomach, stomachum dissolvere (Plin.): to derange the hair, capillos turbare; the order of battle, aciem implicare; ordines aciei conturbare, or perturbare, or confundere; anybody’s plans, rationes alicui (omnes) conturbare: to derange everything, omnia perturbare or miscere: to derange the order of things, perturbare rerum ordinem (Cic.).

To disorder the intellect, mentem turbare, alienare (to make crazed).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for derange?: The usual Latin words for “derange” are turbō, conturbō, perturbō; also misceō, permisceō, cōnfundō. 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.