English → Latin
“awe” in Latin
verēcundiaknowing one's place, regarded as a virtue; coyness, modesty; shyness, bashfulness; shame, awerevereorto stand in awe (of), regard, respect, honor, reverence, revere; to stand in fear (of); to be afraid, fearvenerātiōreverence, veneration; worshipadmīrātiōwonder, admirationvereorto have respect for, revere, stand in awe; to be afraid, fear; dreadpāscōto feed, nourish, maintain, support; to pasture, drive to pasture, tend, attend; to feed, supply, cultivate, let growexpavēscōto become very frightened; to shrink/shy away from; to dreadtimeōto fear, be afraid of, apprehend, be apprehensive of; to be afraid, to fear, to be apprehensivetimorfear, dread; awe, reverenceincutiōto strike on, against, into; to inspire with, inflict, excite
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
awe s.
verecundia (fear of lowering one’s self in the eyes of one whom we respect: then respect for a person or thing): reverentia (the feeling and conviction that a person deserves one’s reverential respect): veneratio (reverence toward the gods and sacred things: the reverence of worship): admiratio (awe accompanied with wonder, felt and expressed). To be restrained by a secret awe, tacita quadam veneratione inhiberi. To feel awe at anything, vereri or revereri aliquid; verecundiam habere alicujus rei: sometimes pavere or expavescere: timere or extimescere aliquid (to tremble at the thoughts of it): to feel awe of anybody, verecundiam habere alicujus; aliquem revereri; reverentiamadversus aliquem adhibere: suspicere aliquem (to look up to). To throw aside all feeling of awe, reverentiam exuere; omnem verecundiam effondere.
awe v.
alicui injicere admirationem sui (to make him gaze at one with admiration): timorem, or pavorem alicui injicere, or incutere (to strike fear into them): efficere ut aliquis aliquid or aliquem vereatur or revereatur (to cause him to reverence).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for awe?
- The usual Latin words for “awe” are verēcundia, revereor, venerātiō; also admīrātiō, vereor, pāscō. 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.