English → Latin
“angry” in Latin
īrāscorto be angry, to be enragedoculuseye; sight, vision; luminary of the sun and starsaccendōto kindle or light (a fire); to inflame or arouseincitōto set in rapid motion, hasten, urge forwards, speed up, accelerate, quicken; to cause to grow larger; augment, increaseflagrōto burn, blazemināxprojecting; overhanging; jutting out; threatening; menacingtruxwild, rough, harsh, savage, fierce, ferocious; grim, stern
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
angry
iratus (angry: also of things that betray a person’s anger; e.g., oculi): with anybody, alicui: irae plenus (full of wrath: of persons): ira incensus, or accensus, or incitatus, or flagrans: iracundia inflammatus (inflamed with anger: of high degrees of passion): minax, trux (threatening, wild, fierce: of looks, etc.).
To be angry, iratum esse; with or against any body, iratum or offensum esse alicui. He is angry with me, ilium iratum habeo. They are angry with each other, ira inter eos intercessit. To grow angry, irasci, iratum fieri; indignari; stoinachari; ira incendi, or exacerbari, orexcandescere: iracundia exardescere, inflammari, efferri. To make anybody angry, facere aliquem iratum; irritare aliquem or alicujus iram: exacerbare aliquem. To make anybody angry against anybody, aliquem facere alicui iratum. I am angry at anything, aliquid mihi stomacho est; aliquid aegre fero (in comedy, aliquid mihi or meo animo aegre est); aliquid mihi molestum est; aliquid me pungit; aliquid me male habet. I felt more angry about it than Quintus himself, haec mihi majori stomacho, quam ipsi Quinto fuerunt.
To be angry (of wounds), inflammari.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for angry?
- The usual Latin words for “angry” are īrāscor, oculus, accendō; also incitō, flagrō, mināx. 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.