English → Latin
“embroil” in Latin
implicōto entangle, entwine; to infold, envelop, encircle; to embraceimpediōto hinder, impede, prevent, obstruct, hamper, thwart; to embarrassconturbōto confuse, confound; to throw into confusion; to disturb, disquiet; to become bankrupt; to throw accounts into disarrayperturbōto confuse; to disturb or perturb, trouble or alarmquassōto shake repeatedly, to quake; to wave or flourish; to weakenconquassōto shake violently; to shatter; to unsettle or disturblacerōto rend, tear to pieces; to mutilate, lacerate; to mangledīlacerōto tear apart, or to pieces
The English word embroil itself goes back to Latin brodium.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
embroil
implicare or impedire (aliqua re): illaqueare aliqua re (involve in anything): conturbare: perturbare (throw into confusion): quassare: conquassare (shake): lacerare: dilacerare (tear to pieces). To embroil in a war, bello implicare; in a lawsuit, lite implicare: to be embroiled in a war, bello implicitum or illigatum esse: to embroil a state, civitatem perturbare; rempublicam labefactare, conturbare, quassare, dilacerare. Vid. PERPLEX, ENTANGLE.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for embroil?
- The usual Latin words for “embroil” are implicō, impediō, conturbō; also perturbō, quassō, conquassō. 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.