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“hurry” in Latin
festīnanterpromptly, speedily, quickly; hastily, hurriedlypraeproperusoverhasty, sudden, precipitatefestīnōto hasten, make haste, hurry; pass swiftly; to accelerate, do or prepare hastily, make haste with something, hasten, hurvī̆ndēmiaa grape-gathering, vintagecōnsiliumplan, intention, design, purpose; counsel, advice; determination, resolve, resolutionnimiusexcessive, too great, too much; beyond measurefestīnātiōAn instance of hastening or hurrying; haste, hurry, dispatch, speed.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
hurry v.
TRANS., festinanter, or praepropere or raptim et praepropere, or nimis festinantem facere aliquid, agere aliquid: praecipitare aliquid (to hasten it too much; do it too soon; e.g., vindemiam, Col.); also, raptim praecipitare aliquid (e.g., consilia, Liv., 31, 32). (☞ For the terms that imply less blame, Vid: To HASTEN, TRANS.). Your successor cannot possibly hasten his departure, so as, etc., successor tuus non potest ita maturare ullo modo, ut etc.
To hurry anybody away, aliquem agere, or praecipitem, or transvorsum (Sall.) agere (into a crime, etc., infacinus: transvorsum agere, in a bad sense); aliquem transversum ferre (Quint.); agitare aliquem (Cic.); aliquem rapere, abripere: to be hurried away by anything, agitari aliqua re; aliqua re transversum ferri or agitari: rapi aliqua re. To hurry anybody into, agere aliquem, or transversum, or praecipitem agere aliquem in aliquid: rapere aliquem in aliquid (e.g., opinionibus vulgi rapimur in errorem, Cic.).
INTRANS., festinare. (The words are found in this connection and order.) festinare et properare, or properare et festinare: in festinationibus nimias suscipere celeritates (to be in too great a hurry); praepropere festinare (Liv., 37, 23); in anything, festinantius or praepropere agere aliquid; festinationem or celeritatem adhibere. To hurry to anybody, citato studio cursuque venire; to a place, citato cursu locum petere; cursu effuso ad locum ferri (☞ Liv., 7, 15): Vid: To HASTEN, INTRANS.
hurry s.
nimia or praepropera festinatio, or festinatio only (e.g., festinatio est improvida et caeca): praepropera celeritas (Liv., 31, 41, where, however, it is not in a bad sense). To be in a hurry [Vid: To HURRY, INTRANS.] : to do anything in a hurry, nimis festinanter, or praepropere agere, or facere aliquid: to do everything in a hurry, omnia raptim agere. Never be in a hurry, festina lente (Prov.). Vid. HASTE s.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for hurry?
- The usual Latin words for “hurry” are festīnanter, praeproperus, festīnō; also vī̆ndēmia, cōnsilium, nimius. 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.