English → Latin
“embarrass” in Latin
implicōto entangle, entwine; to infold, envelop, encircle; to embraceturbōto 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, permisceōto mix or mingle together thoroughly, commingle, intermingle, combine; to mix together, unite, join, combine; to throw icōnfundōto pour, mingle, stir up; to diffuse, suffuse, spread over; to unite, mix together, join, combine, mingle
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
embarrass
Throw into confusion, implicare (PROP., and figuratively): turbare: perturbare: conturbare (perturbare. conturbare also = to alarm, confound): miscere: permiscere: confundere: aliquem differre (to confuse anybody, so that he does not know what to say; Vid: Ruhnken, Terentianus, Andr., 2, 4, 5): aliquem in angustias adducere (put him in a strait). To embarrass anybody’s plans, rationes alicui conturbare; a man by uncertain answers, aliquem incertis responsis implicare; persons’ minds, animos implicare or confundere. To be embarrassed, mente turbari: memoria turbari or memoria alicujus confunditur (if from want of recollection). [Vid: EMBARRASSED.]
Hinder; render the execution of anything difficult, impedire aliquem or aliquid; in any matter, ab aliqua re, or only aliqua re (not in aliqua re): impedimento esse alicui (alicui rei); in any matter, ad aliquid (not, in aliqua re): impedimentum afferre alicui rei faciendae (all general terms): obstare, or officere alicui, or alicui rei alicujus (obstare, simply to be an obstacle in the way; officere = to interpose an obstacle purposely): retardare aliquem; in anything, ad aliquid faciendum; ab aliqua re facienda; in aliqua re (e.g., ad aliquid fruendum; a scribendo): interpellare aliquem (in aliqua re; to hinder him from the free exercise of anything).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for embarrass?
- The usual Latin words for “embarrass” are implicō, turbō, perturbō; also conturbō, misceō, permisceō. 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.