English → Latin
“disarray” in Latin
turbōto disturb, unsettle, agitate, perturb; to upsetperturbōto confuse; to disturb or perturb, trouble or alarmcōnfundōto pour, mingle, stir up; to diffuse, suffuse, spread over; to unite, mix together, join, combine, mingleōrdōa methodical series, arrangement, or order; regular line, row, or series; a class, station, condition, rank; a group or exercitusexercise; trouble, affliction; an exercised, disciplined body of men, an armyperturbātiōconfusion; disturbance, disorder; commotion
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
disarray v.
Undress; Vid:
Throw ranks into confusion, turbare (ordines); perturbare (exercitum); confundere (ordines).
disarray s.
Undress, Vid:
Disorder, confusion, perturbatio (e.g., exercitus): ordines incompositi.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for disarray?
- The usual Latin words for “disarray” are turbō, perturbō, cōnfundō; also ōrdō, exercitus, perturbātiō. 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.