English → Latin
“amiss” in Latin
perperusfaulty, defective; wrong, incorrectprāvuscrooked, deformed; depraved, perverse, wicked; vicious, wrong, bad, impropersecusotherwise, to the contrary; differentlystatuōto put up (something); to stand (something) in an upright position; to establish, determine, fix (the form or character peccōto sin, transgress, commit a wrongdoing; to mess updēlinquōto fail in one's duty; to be wanting, lacking; to commit a fault, do something wrong; transgress, offend, errcommittōto join together, unite, connect, put together; to practise or perpetrate wrong, do injustice; commit a crime; to beginlāborto slip, slide, glide; (of fluids) to flow gently; to fall, sink down; to slip, stumbleerrōto wander, rove, stray, roam; to get lost, go astray; to err, wander from the truth, to mistake
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
amiss adv.
perverse: perperam (opposed to recte): prave. Sometimes secus (i. e., otherwise than the thing should be, than was expected, etc.). To judge or determine amiss, perperam judicare or statuere; prave judicare. To do amiss, peccare, delinquere; delictum admittere or committere: labi, errare [Vid. SIN, v.] . It would not be amiss if you were to speak with Balbus on this subject, de quo nihilnocuerit, si cum Balbo locutus eris. I thought it would not be amiss to relate, haud ab re duxi, referre, etc.: or by censere only, followed by subjunctive (with or without ut) or by accusative with infinitive. Anything turns out amiss, res secus cadit; res minus prospere or non ex sententia, cadit. To take any thing amiss, aliquid perperam interpretari (to put a bad construction on it): aliquid in malam partem accipere (to take anything ill, in bad part). I take it amiss, that, etc., aegre fero, with accusative and infinitive. To be somewhai amiss leviter aegrotare: levi motiuncula tentari (Suet.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for amiss?
- The usual Latin words for “amiss” are perperus, prāvus, secus; also statuō, peccō, dēlinquō. 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.