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“beautiful” in Latin
fōrmōsusbeautiful, handsome; aesthetic, well-formedpulcherbeautiful, fair, pretty; noble, honorable, excellentvenustuscharming, friendly, lovely, pleasing, comely, beautiful, elegant; artistic, elegant; affable, elegant, charmingēgregiusdistinguished, excellent, eminent; illustrious, honorableeximiusselect, choice; special, particular, exceptional, remarkable, extraordinary; exempt
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
beautiful
formosus; pulcher; venustus (formosus means beauty as far as it excites pleasure and delight by fineness of form; pulcher, as far as it satisfies the taste by its parfectness; venustus, at far as by its charms it excites desire and captivates: vultu pulchro magis quam venusto, of a cold, heartless sort of beauty, by which no one felt attracted, Döderlein): beautiful to behold, facie polchra, or formosa, or egregia; specie venusta; forma pulchra, eximia: to write a beautiful hand, lepida manu litteras facere: to write a beautiful style, eleganter, or venuste, or belle, or paeclare, or ornate scribere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for beautiful?
- The usual Latin words for “beautiful” are fōrmōsus, pulcher, venustus; also ēgregius, eximius. 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.