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“displease” in Latin

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

displease
displicere (the proper word): non placere: aliquid habere offensionis (of things, to be offensive): non probari: improbari (to be found fault with; of things): incurrere in alicujus offensionem (to incur anybody’s displeasure, give cause to offence; of persons); offendere aliquem (in anything, in aliquo, neuter; in any matter; by anything, aliqua re; e.g., verbo, vultu; also offendere apud aliquem aliqua re, Cic., Att., 10, 4): anything displeases me, aliquid mihi displicet; abhorreo ab aliqua re (I am disinclined to anything) :aegre or moleste fero aliquid: molestum est mihi aliquid (anything vexes or troubles me): anybody displeases me, displicet mihi aliquis: offendo in aliquo (to take offence). I give anybody to understand that I am displeased with anything, me aegre pati aliquid ostendo. I can’t help telling (you) that I am displeased with the thing, *rem mihi displicere non possum non profited: anybody is displeased with anything, aliquid alicui improbatur or non probatur (he disapproves of it); aliquis aliquid aegre or moleste fert, patitur: aliquid alicui molestum est (it is a trouble to him); poenitet aliquem alicujus rei (he is quite put out by it). To be displeased at anything in anybody, offendere aliquid in aliquo (Cic., Mil., 36; but only with accusative of neuter pronoun, aliquid). Sometimes to be displeased with anybody = to be angry with him; Vid.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for displease?
The usual Latin words for “displease” are displiceō, improbō, verbum; also vultus. 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.