English → Latin
“exhort” in Latin
hortorto encourage, exhort, urgeadhortorto encourage, rouse, stimulate, rally, urge or exhort someone to somethingcohortorto encourage or exhortmoneōto warn, to advise; to remind; to exhort, advise, recommendadmoneōto remind, recall to the mind, make remember; to admonish, warn, caution; to suggest, advise
The English word exhort itself goes back to Latin hortor, through exhortor.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
exhort
hortari: adhortari: cohortari (to exhort by a strong and friendly appeal to a person’s will and resolution; the immediate object of the exhortation being an action): all with ad aliquid, with ut, ne, or ad aliquid faciendum; the first two also with subjunctive only; also hortari or adhortari, de aliqua re, on any subject: monere: admonere (to exhort by warning a person of the actual state of affairs, of the danger of not acting, etc. The monens endeavors to work upon the reason and understanding of the person exhorted). (The words are found in this connection and order.) monere atque hortari; hortari et suadere. To exhort soldiers, milites cohortari (the proper word); also milites adhortari (Cic., Phil., 4, 5). To exhort persons to concord, concordiam suadere; also aliquos ad concordiam cohortari (Suet.): to recover their liberty, ad recuperandam libertatem cohortari: ☞ exhortari belongs to poetry and post-Augustan, prose; cohortari is followed by infinitive in Hirt., Bell. Al., 21, and in Tac.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for exhort?
- The usual Latin words for “exhort” are hortor, adhortor, cohortor; also moneō, admoneō. 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.