English → Latin
“hinder” in Latin
āvertōto turn away, turn off, avert; to avoid, divert, deviate; to remove; to steal, embezzle, appropriate to oneselfpostīcusback, rear, posterioroccipitiumocciput (back of the head)obstōto stand before, stand in the way of, obstruct, block, oppose; to thwart, hinder
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
hinder adj.
aversus (turned away; in the back, not in the front; opposed to adversus): posticus (what is behind anything; e.g., at the back of a house; opposed to antieus). Hinder part, pars posterior: pars aversa; of the head, occipitium; aversa pars capitis.
hinder
(1) (1) Delay; oppose the execution, etc., impedire aliquem (aliquid); in anything, ab aliqua re, and simply aliqua re (☞ never in aliqua re): impedimento esse alicui (alicui rei); in anything, ad aliquid (never in aliqua re): impedimentum afferre alicui rei faciendae (general term): obstare or officere alicui and alicui rei alicujus (to be opposed to anybody; obstare, simply to stand in the way of; but officere, to be opposed to as an enemy; e.g., alicujus consiliis obstare or officere): retardare aliquem, in anything, ad aliquid faciendum or ab aliqua re facienda, in aliqua re (to check anybody; e.g., aliquem a scribendo retardare; ad aliquid fruendum): interpellare aliquem, in anything, in aliqua re (to disturb a person in the practice of anything; e.g., in suo jure): aliquem avocare, avertere, abducere ab aliqua re (to draw off a person from doing or attempting anything; to hinder him in it). “From,” with the participial substantive after “to hinder,” is rendered in Latin by ne or quominus (rarely by an infinitive), and, if a negation precede the verb, by quin; Vid: Zumpt, § 543: I do not hinder him from, etc., non moror, quominus, etc. (2) Prevent, prohibere aliquem; from anything, aliqua re; more rarely, a re (Vid: Moeb., Caes., B.G., 4, 11); from doing anything, ne, quin or quominus, faciat; where observe that quin points to the result, so that if “I did not hinder his going” means “I did not make any objection to it,” “I did not try to hinder it,” we must say non prohibui ne, or quominus proficisceretur; for non prohibui quin proficisceretur would mean, that “though I tried to hinder him, he nevertheless went.” Of the unsuccessful attempt, non posse prohibere (quin) is more common (Krüger, 575, after Haase ad Reisig., p. 579): arcere aliquem re and a re (to hinder by keeping off; to guard against): dehortari (to dissuade), after which verb the English “from,” after “to hinder,” is expressed by ne or quominus, or by infinitive; Vid: Zumpt, § 543, sq., who says that impedire and deterrere are sometimes, and prohibere often, followed by infinitive: avocare, abducere aliquem a re (as it were, to call back, bring away anybody from a thing). To hinder an enemy from laying waste, from crossing, etc. hostem prohibere populationibus, transftu: to hinder anybody from flight, fugam alicujus reprimere: to be hindered (to be interrupted or disturbed in one’s business), interpellari: to be hindered by very important business, maximis occupationibus distineri or impediri. We are hindered from doing anything, prohibemur aliquid facere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for hinder?
- The usual Latin words for “hinder” are āvertō, postīcus, occipitium; also obstō. 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.