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“disturbance” in Latin

The English word disturbance itself goes back to Latin turba, through disturbō.

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

disturbance
As act, turbatio: perturbatio (the act of troubling, confusing; e.g., the tranquillity of the state, otii; of the order of things, ordinis perturbatio): interpellatio (interruption [as act, and also as circumstance] by the intervening of an event or the intervention of a person): impedimentum (hindrance; a circumstance or occurrence of a disturbing nature). Without any disturbance (= interruption), sine ulla interpellatione: to cause a disturbance in anything, aliquid interpellare (to interrupt anything) or impedire (to hinder).
As state, tumultus (noisy uproar, especially threatening or causing a breach of the public peace). (The words are found in this connection and order.) motus ac tumultus (Cic.); strepitus ac tumultus (Caes.); terror ac tumultus (Liv.): turba (and when used indefinitely, turbae, plur.; interruption of public order). (The words are found in this connection and order.) turba ac tumultus (Cic.); turba et confusio rerum (Cic.); turbae atque seditiones (of seditious disturbances; Sall.); turbae atque discordiae (Tac.). An exciter of disturbances, turbae ac tumultus concitator: to excite disturbances in the camp, efficere turbas in castris: to be making a disturbance (by noisy, passionate language, etc.), tumultuari: that no disturbance may be made, ne quid turbae fiat (Plaut.): what is all this disturbance? quid hoc tumultus est (Ennius, where it is tumulti)? a general disturbance, omnium rerum perturbatio: to cause a general disturbance, omnia miscere et turbare: disturbance of mind, conturbatio mentis (☞ labefactatio is the disturbance as act or cause of the disturbed state of things, Quint., 8, 4, 14): to cause a disturbance in the state, civitatem perturbare; rempublicam labefactare, or conturbare, or quassare (to shake), or dilacerare (to tear it to pieces): to cause ruinous political disturbances in one’s country, lacerare patriam.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for disturbance?
The usual Latin words for “disturbance” are turbātiō, perturbātiō, interpellātiō; also impedīmentum, tumultus, turba. 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.