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“badly” in Latin
malusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, mprāvuscrooked, deformed; depraved, perverse, wicked; vicious, wrong, bad, impropernēquiterbadly; wickedlyīnferōto carry, bring, put, place, or throw in, into, to, or upon somewhere or something; insert; to bring forward, introduce,metuōto fear, be afraid; to be anxious or afraid about or for a specific person or thing; to revere, dread
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
badly
male; prave; nequiter: to think badly, or have a bad opinion of a person, male opinari de aliquo: to speak badly of a person, alicui male dicere: to behave badly to a person, injuriam alicui facere or inferre: to turn out badly, male or secus cadere: to manage matters badly, male rem gerere: he is afraid that he may come off badly, metuit, ne malum habeat: anybody is coming off badly, male se habet aliquis; male agitur cum aliquo.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for badly?
- The usual Latin words for “badly” are malus, prāvus, nēquiter; also īnferō, metuō. 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.