English → Latin
“disorder” in Latin
implicātiōentanglement; involvementlicetto be allowed; to be permitted; although, even ifexercitusexercise; trouble, affliction; an exercised, disciplined body of men, an armyturbōto disturb, unsettle, agitate, perturb; to upsetperturbōto confuse; to disturb or perturb, trouble or alarmconturbōto confuse, confound; to throw into confusion; to disturb, disquiet; to become bankrupt; to throw accounts into disarraymisceōto mix; to mingle; to intermingle; to unite; to combine; to share; to associate; of a disturbance of the natural order, cōnfundōto pour, mingle, stir up; to diffuse, suffuse, spread over; to unite, mix together, join, combine, mingleincutiōto strike on, against, into; to inspire with, inflict, excitecommoveōto move something in violent motion, move; shake, stir, shift, agitate; to remove something from somewhere, carry away,
The English word disorder itself goes back to Latin ōrdō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
disorder
Want of regular disposition; confusion, implicatio (e.g., rei familiaris): perturbatio ordinis (the disturbed order of things): perturbatio alicujus rei (the act of confusing anything; e.g., exercitus): negligentia alicujus rei (neglect; e.g., in domestic affairs, rei familiaris; Vid: also, CONFUSION): to throw into disorder, to be in disorder, etc. [Vid: “to put, etc., into CONFUSION”]: the enemy advances in great disorder, ordinibus incompositis effuse veniunt hostes: they fled to their camp in great disorder, effuso cursu castra repetunt.
Disturbance; Vid:
Irregularity [Vid: CONFUSION].
Breach of laws, licentia; effrenata licentia.
Disease; Vid:
Discomposure of the mind, mentis perturbatio: animi commotio: animus perturbatus et incitatus :aestus error, etc.: animi motus nimii (= perturbationes, Cic.). Vid: PERTURBATION.
disorder v.
To throw into confusion, turbare (e.g., statum civitatis; ordines hostium): perturbare (e.g., exercitum, civitatem): conturbare (e.g., ordines, rem; and especially rationes, accounts): miscere (turn topsy-turvy; e.g., rempublicam): confundere (e.g., ordines): ordinem alicujus rei perturbare (Cic.); ordinem alicujus rei confundere (e.g., disciplinae, Tac., Hist., 1, 60). To disorder everything, omnia perturbare or miscere. [Vid: CONFUSION and To CONFUSE].
To disturb the body (= make sick), morbum alicui afferre or incutere; aliquem valetudine tentare (e.g., of an unhealthy autumn, Caes.): morbo tentare (Cic.): commovere: anybody’s stomach is disordered, aliquis alvo commovetur (Plin.).
To disturb the mind, mentem turbare; animum (vehementer) commovere aliqua re: animum conturbare (e.g., utilitatis specie): omnes animi sensus confundere († Lucr.). Vid: also, To DISTURB.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for disorder?
- The usual Latin words for “disorder” are implicātiō, licet, exercitus; also turbō, perturbō, conturbō. 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.