English → Latin
“bedizen” in Latin
ōrnōto furnish, equip, outfit, prepare; to adorn, ornament, decorate; to honor, commend, praiseexōrnōto equip, furnish, supply, provide; to adorn, embellishadōrnōto get ready, furnish, equip, provide, fit out; to decorate, ornament, adorn, embellishexcolōto tend or cultivate (figurative); to improve or perfect; to honourdistinguōto distinguish; to separate, divide or part; to adorn or decoratecolōrōto color, tinge, imbue; to paint, dye
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
bedizen
ornare; exornare; adornare: excolere (to embellish with decorations of all sorts): distinguere (with things which, by color, brilliancy, and other qualities, set off any thing): to bedizen a speech, dicendi non ornamenta quaerere sed lenocinia (after Quint., Prooem. to Book 8, 26): orationem variare ac distinguere quasi quibusdam verborum sententiarumque lenociniis: to bedizen a narration, narrationem gratia et venere exornare: to bedizen a description, nimium depingene aliquid: to bedizen one’s failings, vitia sua fucare, colorare. “To bedeck” and “to bedizen” may be thus distin guished: “to bedeck” is simply to adorn; “to bedizen,” to set off by excess of ornaments.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for bedizen?
- The usual Latin words for “bedizen” are ōrnō, exōrnō, adōrnō; also excolō, distinguō, colōrō. 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.