English → Latin
“bare” in Latin
nūdusunclothed, nude, naked; stripped, deprived, destitute; defenceless, helpless, unarmedaperiōto uncover, make or lay bare, reveal, clear; to make visible, discover, show, reveal, lay open; to unclose, open, break manifestuscaught in the act, plainly guilty; detected in the act, flagrant, plain; obvious, self-evidentinōrnātusunadorned, undecorated; uncelebratedsimplexsingle; simple, plain, uncompounded; pure, unmixedegēnusin want or need of; destitute of; indigent, needyinopshelpless, destitute, indigent, poor; deprived, lacking, needy (+ genitive or ab + ablative); mean, wretched, contemptiblieiūnusfasting, abstinent, hungry; dry, barren, unproductive; scanty, meagerexsiliumexile, banishment; place of exile, retreat; exiles; exiled peoplemerussheer, undiluted, pure (especially of wine)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
bare
nudus (like γυμνός, uncovered and unprotected): apertus (without covering; opposed to tectus; post-Augustan. inopertus): non tectus (after Augustus, intectus).
Detected, manifestus.
Plain, nudus, inornatus, simplex.
Poor, nudus, egenus, inops.
Thread-bare, tritus, attritus, obsoletus.
Of style, jejunus, exilia.
Mere, merus, sincerus.
Bare-headed, capite detecto or aperto: to sleep on the bare ground, humi cubare: to make bare, nudare, aperire: bare-faced, impudens; procax. A bare-faced fellow, homo perfrictae frontis: bare-facedness, impudentia: os impudens, or durum, or ferreum: to make a bare-faced request, impudenter aliquid postulare: bare-foot, nudis pedibus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for bare?
- The usual Latin words for “bare” are nūdus, aperiō, manifestus; also inōrnātus, simplex, egēnus. 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.