English → Latin
“exhortation” in Latin
monitiōadmonition, warning; advice, counseladmonitiōreminder; warning; rebukehortātiōencouragement, exhortationadhortātiōexhortation; encouragement; An exhortation intended to win the consent or desire of the audience.cohortātiōencouragement, exhortationhortorto encourage, exhort, urge
The English word exhortation itself goes back to Latin hortor, through exhortātiōnem.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
exhortation
monitio: admonitio: hortatio: adhortatio, cohortatio: hortatus, us [SYN. in To EXHORT]: not to listen to anybody’s exhortation, aliquem monentem non audire: by my exhortation, me monente: by anybody’s exhortations, alicujus hortatu.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for exhortation?
- The usual Latin words for “exhortation” are monitiō, admonitiō, hortātiō; also adhortātiō, cohortātiō, hortor. 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.