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“disorderly” in Latin

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

disorderly
Confused, turbatus: conturbatus: perturbatus: confusus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) conturbatus et confusus: inconditus: perplexus [SYN. in To CONFUSE]: impeditus (that is difficult to solve or to disentangle).
Irregular, incompositus (not PROP. arranged or put to rights): indigestus (not PROP. distributed, all lying in a heap; e.g., moles, turba): inordinatus (not put in its place, rank, or file; e.g., milites, impetus).
Lawless, vicious; Vid:
In a disorderly manner, confuse: incomposite: sine ordine: negligenter: nullo ordine: sine ordinibus (these two of soldiers marching in a disorderly way): effuso cursu (of soldiers flying): contra morem obsequii, or contra fas disciplinae (in an insubordinate manner, Tac., Ann., 1, 19): dissolute: intemperanter: libidinose: effrenate. SYN. in DISORDER.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for disorderly?
The usual Latin words for “disorderly” are turbō, conturbō, perturbō; also cōnfundō, inconditus, perplexus. 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.