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“excite” in Latin
excitōto call forth: to rouse, awaken, summon; to bring forth: to raise, build; to bring out: to encourage, revive, excite, stconcitōto rush; to rouse up, agitate, move violently, stir up, excite, disturb; to spur, impel, inciteincitōto set in rapid motion, hasten, urge forwards, speed up, accelerate, quicken; to cause to grow larger; augment, increaseexciōto draw out, extract; to call or bring out or forth, summon; to produce, causeconcieōto bring, assemble or urge together, collect (by exciting or rousing); to move violently, shake, stir (up); to rouse, exmoveōto move, stir, set in motion; to disturb, shake, remove; to arouse, excite, promote, producecommoveōto move something in violent motion, move; shake, stir, shift, agitate; to remove something from somewhere, carry away, cōnflōto kindle (a fire); to forge, fuse or melt (metal); to refine or purifyīnstīgōto stimulate, set on, incite, rouse or urgeacuōto make pointed, sharpen, whet; to exercise, practice, improve; to spur, stimulate, arouse
The English word excite itself goes back to Latin cieō, through excitō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
excite
excitare (to rouse up from a state of inactivity or depression, aliquem or alicujus jacentem animum; aliquem ad aliquid; also, risum, plausum, suspicionem alicui; motum in animis hominum, emotion, opposed to motum sedare): concitare (to put in a state of violent activity, aliquem ad aliquid; by anything, aliqua re; multitudinem; aliquem ira; animos, opposed to remittere, Quint.): incitare (to set in motion, and urge onwards to an object, or, figuratively, against a person, aliquem, alicujus animum, libidines; studium alicujus rei; aliquem ad aliquid: aliquem in or contra aliquem, against another): excire, conciere or concire (in classic prose, only = to stir up the mind passively to any action; seldom to produce a passion, evil of any kind, etc.; e.g., iram concire; seditionem concire; terrorem excire): movere, commovere (to move, agitate, stir the mind or senses; then = to produce some emotion or passion, or something evil; e.g., misericordiam, se ditionem, bellum movere or commovere; suspicionem, risum movere): conflare (to blow up, to kindle = to cause, alicui invidiam: bellum): instigare (to urge on; to instigate, not very common; te instigante, Cic.; Romanos in Hannibalem, Liv.): acuere: exacuere (to sharpen; and hence, to produce vigor, alacrity, vehemence; acuere aliquem ad crudelitatem; acuere aliquem [opposed to languorem afferre alicui, Cic.]; acuere pectora virorum fortium, Liv.; exacuere aliquem [opposed to deterrere, Cic.]; exacuere aliquem ira, Nep.: irritare (e.g., animos ad bellum, Liv.; aliquem ad necem alicujus, Velleius): stimulare (to spur on, stimulate; with accusative of object; in aliquid; ut, ne, and poetically, infinitive; anybody against anybody, aliquem in aliquem): inflammare (to kindle a violent feeling, aliquem in aliquem; against anybody, sensus animorum atque motus [opposed to exstinguere, Cic.]; invidiam alicujus; aliquem aliqua re, and ad aliquid). ☞ Exstimulare, poetically, and in post-Augustan, prose. (The words are found in this connection and order.) incitare et stimulare (Liv.); stimulare atque excitare (Cic.); inflammare et incendere; excitare et inflammare; accendere et stimulare; impellere et incendere. The Romans also expressed it, figuratively, by stimulos alicui admovere or addere; stimulos subdere alicujus animo; calcaria alicui adhibere or admovere; ignem alicui subjicere (especially to excite the envy of anyone). To excite to battle or to war, ad certamen, ad bellum incitare or irritare aliquem: to excite to learning, irritare aliquem ad discendum: to excite to anger, alicui acuere iram; aliquem ad iram irritare; or simply irritare aliquem: to be excited by anger, ira exacui or incendi: to excite desire, cupiditatem afferre; in anybody, after anything, alicui alicujus rei: to be excited (of the senses), moveri (e.g., ut sensus moventur in summis voluptatibus; Cic.). ☞ For to excite admiration, surprise, thirst, appetite, etc., [Vid: those substantives.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for excite?
- The usual Latin words for “excite” are excitō, concitō, incitō; also exciō, concieō, moveō. 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.