English → Latin
“agreeable” in Latin
grātuspleasing, acceptable, agreeable, welcome; dear, beloved; grateful, thankfulaccipiōto receive, accept, take; to receive, accept, or take in something so as to alter one’s mental or physical state; to heaiūcunduspleasant, agreeable, delightful, pleasing, delicioussuāvissweet, pleasant, deliciousdulcissweet; sweet-smelling, sweet-scented, fragrant; sweet-sounding, melodic, melodious, tunefulmollissoft, delicate to the touch; pliant, flexible, supple; mild, tendercārusdear, beloved; costly, expensive, valuedurbānusof or belonging to a city; urban; fond of, or devoted to cities; cultivated, sophisticated, polished, refinedlepiduspleasant, charming; witty; effeminatefacētuselegant, fine; courteous, polite; witty, jocose, facetious
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
agreeable
gratus (valued as precious, interesting, worthy of thanks): acceptus (welcomed): jucundus (delightful, bringing joy to us): suavis, dulcis, mollis (sweet, pleasing to the senses, and secondarily to the affections. All these, both ofpersons and things): carus (dear: of persons): urbanus (courteous, and so pleasing: of conversation, etc., or persons): lepidus: facetus: festivus (agreeable: of witty, spirited conversation, and of persons remarkable for it). Of places, amoenus (agreeable to the senses): laetus. Very agreeable, pergratus, perjucundus.
Consistent with: accommodatus alicui rei or ad aliquid: aptus alicui rei or ad aliquid: conveniens, congruens (unclassical congruus), consentaneus alicui rei or cum re. (The words are found in this connection and order), aptus et accommodatus; aptusconsentaneusque; congruens et aptus; aptus et congruens. To be agreeable to, consentire, congruere, etc., with dative or cum. [Vid: to AGREE.] If it is agreeable to you, quod commodo tuo fiat: nisi tibi molestum est.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for agreeable?
- The usual Latin words for “agreeable” are grātus, accipiō, iūcundus; also suāvis, dulcis, mollis. 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.