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“unquiet” in Latin
inquiētusrestless; unquietānxiusafeared, anxious, troubled, uneasysollicitusthoroughly moved, agitated or disturbed; restless, unceasing; troubled, engaged, upset, disturbed, anxious, solicitous; turbiduswild, stormy; muddy, turbid; murky, foggy, clouded, opaqueturbulentusstormy, turbulent; unruly, riotoussēditiōsusmutinous, seditious; quarrelsome, factious; troubledtumultuōsusturbulent, restlessanimuslife, life force, soul, vitality (that life-giving aspect which animates a thing); conscience, intellect, mind, reason, ingeniuminnate or natural quality, natural character; nature; disposition, temper, inclination; intelligence, natural capacityVelleiusof or pertaining to the gens Velleia.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
unquiet
inquietus (not Cic., or Caes.; of the mind and character, Liv.; animus, ingenium; impotens semperque inquietus, Velleius; of a person): anxius: sollicitus [SYN. in ANXIOUS]: turbidus (IMPROP., of a confused turbulent state of affairs; res, tempus; also, cogitationes. Tac. is the first who uses it of men of turbulent characters, etc.): turbulentus (stormy, etc., PROP. and also IMPROP.; of “a stormy year,” annus; and of restless men, who are always exciting disturbances; turbulent): seditiosus (inclined to plot against the existing order of things; of persons or things; e.g., a life): tumultuosus (full of disturbance, confusion, tumult, etc.; e.g., of sleep, somnus per somnia tumultuosus: an unquiet life, vita tumultuosa; of persons, it is only used in the sense of raging, storming, etc., in a noisy, passionate way). Unquiet spirits, ingenia inquieta et in novas res avida (Liv.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for unquiet?
- The usual Latin words for “unquiet” are inquiētus, ānxius, sollicitus; also turbidus, turbulentus, sēditiōsus. 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.