English → Latin
“beauty” in Latin
speciēsseeing, view, look; spectacle, sight; external appearance, looks; general outline or shapefōrmaform; figure, shape, appearance; fine form; beauty; outline, plan, designvenustuscharming, friendly, lovely, pleasing, comely, beautiful, elegant; artistic, elegant; affable, elegant, charmingamoenitāspleasantness, pleasurableness, delightfulness, loveliness, agreeableness, charmōrātiōspeech, discourse, language; the power of speech; manner or style of speakingverbumword; proverb, saying; verblēnōciniumpandering, pimping, prostitution; allurement, enticement; flatteryōsmouth; (in general) head or face; (in general) facial features, countenance, appearance
The English word beauty itself goes back to Latin bellus, through *bellitātem.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
beauty
polchritudo (in a general sense, whatever, whether material or ideal, excites admiration): species (whatever pleases the eye): forma (whatever delights by symmetry): venustas (whatever attracts, aplicable to things or persons, orationis, verborum): venustas et pulchritudo corporis: amoenitas (applied to places, objects, etc.): beauties of style, dicendi veneres: if artificial, lenocinia. orum (Quint., 8, Praef., 26): she is a perfect beauty, mulier est onmibus simulacris emendatior (Petronius, 126, 13); pulchritudine, or forma, or venustate insignis est: a sense of beauty, elegantia (sensus pulchri, or pulchritudinis, is not Latin): to possess an exquisite sense of beauty, esse excultae cujusdam elegantiae.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for beauty?
- The usual Latin words for “beauty” are speciēs, fōrma, venustus; also amoenitās, ōrātiō, verbum. 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.