English → Latin
“adulterate” in Latin
corrumpōto pervert, corrupt, deprave or infect; to gain to oneself by gifts, etc.; bribe; to spoil or rotvitiōto vitiate, make faulty, spoil, taint, corrupt, damage; to violate sexually; to falsify, corrupt (tamper with)adulterōto commit adultery (with); to falsify, counterfeit, adulterate; to pollute, corrupt, defileinterpolōto give a new form, shape, or appearance; to polish, furbish, dress up; to alter, falsify, insert texttrānscrībōto transfer in writing, copy off, transcribe; to alter, forge, falsify; to assign, convey, transferineōto enter, go into; to begin; to have sexual intercoursecommittōto join together, unite, connect, put together; to practise or perpetrate wrong, do injustice; commit a crime; to beginpecūniamoney; wealth; cash, ready money, liquid wealthmercēspay, wages, reward; revenue, income; chastisement, punishment, penaltynummusa coin, piece of money
The English word adulterate itself goes back to Latin alter, through adulterātus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
adulterate v.
corrumpere (corrupt by an internal change of quality): vitiare (general term, to make faulty, spoil; e.g., pecunias, merces): adulterare (to introduce what is bad or spurious into what is good and genuine; e.g., nummos, gemmas): interpolare (to give anything a good appearance by dressing it up; with additions; e.g., merces: to falsify a document by additions and erasures): transcribere (to falsify in copying).
Commit adultery, adulterium facere, inire, committere, etc. Vid: ADULTERY.
adulterate v.
Adulterated money, nummus adulterinus (a coin of adulterated metal).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for adulterate?
- The usual Latin words for “adulterate” are corrumpō, vitiō, adulterō; also interpolō, trānscrībō, ineō. 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.