English → Latin
“beastly” in Latin
bēluīnusbestial, brutal, animalimmundusunclean, impure, dirty, filthy, foulobscēnusinauspicious, ominous, portentous; repulsive, offensive, abominable, hateful, disgusting, filthy; immodest, impure, indespurcusdirty, foul, unclean; morally-polluted, base, meanspurciloquiumfilthy or smutty language; obscenity
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
beastly
rationis expers; belluinus.
Metaphorically, immundus; obscenus; spurcus.
Beastly language, spurciloquium.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for beastly?
- The usual Latin words for “beastly” are bēluīnus, immundus, obscēnus; also spurcus, spurciloquium. 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.