English → Latin
“stirring” in Latin
sēdulusdiligent, industrious, zealous, unremitting, solicitous, assiduous, sedulousnāvusactive, busy, diligentindustriusactive, industrious, assiduous, diligentlabōriōsuslaborious, toilsome, demanding; industrious, hard-workingstrēnuusbrisk, nimble, quick, prompt, active; vigorous, strenuousācersharp, sour, bitter, pungent; keen, sharp, acute, sagacious; energetic, active, vigorousimpigeractive, energetic, diligentagilisThat can be easily moved, easily movable; light.; That moves easily or quickly; nimble, agile, dextrous, quick, rapid; Aoperōsuspainstaking; active, busy, industrious; laborious
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
stirring
sedulus: navus: industrius: laboriosus: strenuus: acer: impiger. A stirring life, vita negotiosa. ☞ Actuosus, used by Cic. only as epithet to virtus, and of the part of an oration which ought to be the most animated, etc. Sen. says vita actuosa; animus actuosus and agilis. Cic. would have said for the first, operosa, semper agens aliquid et moliens; for the second, qui viget, omnia movet, et motu praeditus est sempiterno: activus is a post-classical, philosophical, and grammatical technical term (Krebs).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for stirring?
- The usual Latin words for “stirring” are sēdulus, nāvus, industrius; also labōriōsus, strēnuus, ācer. 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.