English → Latin
“encourage” in Latin
hortorto encourage, exhort, urgeadhortorto encourage, rouse, stimulate, rally, urge or exhort someone to somethingcohortorto encourage or exhortcōnfirmōto make firm, establish, re-establish, strengthen, fortify, mature, confirm; to encourage, animate, embolden; persuade; excitōto call forth: to rouse, awaken, summon; to bring forth: to raise, build; to bring out: to encourage, revive, excite, stincitōto set in rapid motion, hasten, urge forwards, speed up, accelerate, quicken; to cause to grow larger; augment, increaseimpellōto push, drive or strike against something; assail; to drive or push forward, set in motion, urge on, impel; to impel, irelevōto raise, lift up; to lighten; to relieverecreōto create again or anew, restore, recreate; to revive, refresh, invigorate
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
encourage
hortari: adhortari: cohortari (to exhort; to do or not to do anything, adhortari or cohortari, ut or ne, with subjunctive, or ad aliquid faciendum; to anything, adhortari ad aliquid; later [Tac.], in aliquid: hortari ut, ne, or infinitive, or ad aliquid faciendum; ad aliquid or [Liv.] in aliquid; de aliqua re facienda; also with supine [vos ultum injuriam honor, Sall.]; with accusative only [hortari pacem], and with subjunctive governed by ut omitted): confirmare (to strengthen a man’s mind or resolution): excitare: incitare (excite, animate him): impellere (urge him on): stimulare aliquem: stimulos admovere alicui (spur him on): relevare: recreare (to encourage by consolation). To encourage one another, cohortari inter se; also mutua cohortatione firmare: to encourage anybody to learn, ad cupiditatem discendi excire aliquem; to read and write, ad legendi et scribendi studium excitare aliquem: to encourage anybody in anything, aliquem, or alicujus animum, ad aliquid incitare, excitare, concitare, inflammare, incendere, accendere, stimulare, exstimulare, instigare.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for encourage?
- The usual Latin words for “encourage” are hortor, adhortor, cohortor; also cōnfirmō, excitō, incitō. 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.