What is the Latin word for apparent?

The usual Latin words for “apparent” are opīnor, simulō, fingō; also imāginārius, adumbrō, fūcō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

English → Latin

“apparent” in Latin

opīnorto suppose, imagine, deem, think, judge, opine simulōto make like, simulate, imitate, copy, represent; to feign, pretend; to behave or act (as if, as though)fingōto shape, fashion, form, knead (dough); to touch, touch gently, stroke, stroke gently, handle; to adorn, dress, arrange imāgināriusimage; imaginary adumbrōto bring a shadow over something, cast a shadow on, shade or overshadow something, cover, screen; to represent an object fūcōto colour, paint, dye; to embellish, dissemble, falsify fūcōsuspainted, coloured, beautified; fake, counterfeit, spurious manifestuscaught in the act, plainly guilty; detected in the act, flagrant, plain; obvious, self-evident aperiōto uncover, make or lay bare, reveal, clear; to make visible, discover, show, reveal, lay open; to unclose, open, break perspicuustransparent, clear; evident, manifest, perspicuous

The English word apparent itself goes back to Latin pāreō, through appārēns.

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

apparent

seeming, opinatus (imaginary; e.g., good, evil, opposed to verus): simulatus, fictus. (The words are found in this connection and order), fictus et simulatus (pretended: opposed to verus): imaginarius (what is present, happens, etc., only inform, without having full validity; imaginary: first in Liv., neque so imaginariis fascibus corum cessuros esse, 3, 41): adumbratus (sketched in appearance only; feigned: opposed to verus): fucatus, fucosus (deceiving by a fair appearance; hence, not gennuinc: opposed to verus). Vid. Speciosus is never “seeming,” but “striking the senses by its fair exterior.”Sometimes apparent may be translated (a) by the adverb ficte. “An apparent reconciliation,” gratia ficte reconciliata; (b) by id quod vidctur neque est; e.g., “apparent expediency,” ea quae videturutilitas, neque est; id quod videtur utile esse, neque est: (c) by species with the genitive, “an apparent advantage,” species utilitatis.

Indubitable, plain: manifestus, apertus. (The words are found in this connection and order), promtus et apertus, apertus et manifestus: perspicuus. (The words are found in this connection and order), apertus et perspicuus: non dubius: certus: evidens: testatus (proved by evidence): praesens (already at hand): ante oculos positus: notus, cognitus (known): luce clarior. It is apparent, patet, apparet, manifestum est, in oculos incurrit. It is quite apparent, omni luce or soils luce clarius est [not meridiana luce clarius est]. To make any thing apparent, aperire, patefacere, palam facere. To become or be made apparent, patefieri: e tenebris erumpere (of things suddenly becoming visible; e.g., a conspiracy).

An heir apparent, heres legitimus (hereditas legitima, was an inheritance given to a person by law, the owner of the property having either died intestate or made an invalid will).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for apparent?: The usual Latin words for “apparent” are opīnor, simulō, fingō; also imāginārius, adumbrō, fūcō. 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.