English → Latin
“bane” in Latin
venēnuma potion, juice; poison, venomvīrusvenom (a poisonous substance secreted by animals or plants); a plant- or animal-sourced substance with medicinal or magipestisdisease, plague, pestilence, infection; a pest; destruction, ruin, deathperniciēsruin, destruction; disaster, calamity; bane, pestexitiuma going out, egress; destruction, ruin; the cause of destruction or ruin
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
bane
poison), venenum, virus.
That which destroys, pestis, peruicies: ruin, mischief pernicies, exitium.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for bane?
- The usual Latin words for “bane” are venēnum, vīrus, pestis; also perniciēs, exitium. 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.