English → Latin
“start” in Latin
commoveōto move something in violent motion, move; shake, stir, shift, agitate; to remove something from somewhere, carry away, stupeōto be stunned, stiffened or benumbed, stop, hesitate; to be dazed, speechless or silenced; to be astounded, confounded, stupēscōto become astonished or amazedincipiōto begin, to commenceabeōto depart, go away, go off, exit; to change one's nature; synonym of eōproficīscorto set out, depart, leavedissiliōto burst asunder, fly apart; To leaprumpōto break, burst, tear, rend, rupture; break asunder, force open; to break, split, rupture, burst; to break; break off, texcitōto call forth: to rouse, awaken, summon; to bring forth: to raise, build; to bring out: to encourage, revive, excite, stcieōto set in motion; act; to move, stir, shake; to summon, call
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
start v.
Intransitively, To startle, concitari terrore et metu: metu concuti: commoveri, percelli re nova, stupere: stupescere. To start back, resilire; resultare: to start at anything, refugere, timere, vereri, horrere, reformidare aliquid: a horse starts, equus consternatur.
To make a beginning, incipere: initium facere.
To set out, abire: proficisci. To start from a certain place, excurrere; e carceribus emitti (in a race).
To burst asunder, dissiliri: rumpi.
Transitively, To arouse, excitare: ciere.
To set on foot, rei initium facere: aggredi aliquid or ad aliquid faciendum (e.g., ad hanc disputationem, ad dicendum, Cic.; also accusative only, ancipitem causam, Cic.; in Sall. always accusative only; in poetical and post-Augustan prose, infinitive): fundamenta rei ponere or jacere. To start a question, rem commovere (quae, etc., Cic., Brut., 87, 297).
To burst, rumpere.
start s.
Sudden action of the body from fear, repens terror.
A sudden impulse or rousing, impetus: impulsus.
A beginning, initium.
A setting out, profectus. To have made a false start, ad carceres revocari (effect for cause).
Advance, precedence, plus viae confectum. To have the start of anybody, praecipere iter alicui (Liv., 3, 46); antecedere, antecessisse aliquem (to have got before anybody): the king had got a considerable start, aliquantum viae rex praeceperat (Liv., 36, 19), or longius spatium praeceperat (e.g., fuga, Liv., 22, 41): to have scarcely four hours’ start of anybody, vix quatuor horarum spatio antecedere (to be hardly four hours’ march ahead, Caes.): Antony had got two days’ start of me, biduo me Antonius antecessit (Brut, ap. Cic., Ep., 11, 13).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for start?
- The usual Latin words for “start” are commoveō, stupeō, stupēscō; also incipiō, abeō, proficīscor. 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.