English → Latin
“distracted” in Latin
distringōto stretch out or apart; to detain; to distractaliēnōto change the nature of a person or thing into something else; to make something the property of another, transfer by savēsānusmad, insane, frenzied; impetuous; fierce, wild, savage, furiousīnsānusmad, insane, dementedvēcorsmad, insane, crazydēlīruscrazy, insane, mad; senseless, silly
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
distracted
*aliena agens (doing or carrying on something else): *aliena cogitans (thinking of something else): varietate et dissimilitudine rerum diductus (having one’s attention divided by a variety of dissimilar objects; Vid: Cic., De Invent., 2, 36, 109): negotiis distentus, districtus (by business): in plura studia distractus (by pursuits, after Cic., De Or., 1, 59, 250). To be distracted., *aliena agere; *aliena cogitare (with the distinction explained above); occupationibus distentum esse; a negotiis districtum esse: to answer in a distracted manner, *aliena respondere: to speak, etc., aliena loqui.
Frantic, mente captus, or alienatus; vesanus; insanus; vecors; delirus [SYN. in MAD]: to be distracted, mente captum or alienatum esse; insanire; delirare: to make anybody quite distracted, in insaniam adigere aliquem. Vid: To MADDEN.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for distracted?
- The usual Latin words for “distracted” are distringō, aliēnō, vēsānus; also īnsānus, vēcors, dēlīrus. 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.