English → Latin
“blemish” in Latin
maculaa spot, speck, small mark or stain; a blemish, temporary or permanent (for example, a bruise, freckle, mole, birthmark, lābēsfall, collapse; subsidence; fault, defectnaevusbirthmark; mole (on the body)vitiumflaw, defect, blemish, imperfection; vice; crime, wrongdoing, misdeed, sin, error, faultturpitūdōugliness, unsightliness, foulness, deformity; baseness, indecency, shamefulness, disgrace, dishonor, infamy, turpitudeignōminiadishonour, disgrace, degradation, ignominy, shameprobrumdisgrace, shame; abuse, insultflāgitiumdisgraceful or shameful action, deed, or crime; scandal; shame, disgrace, outragelābēculastain, blemish; minor disgracemaculōto stain, make spotted; to defile, pollute; to dishonor
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
blemish
bodily, macula, labes (diminutive, labecula), naevus; vitium (deformity, defect, generally).
Moral, turpitudo, macula, vitium, labes, ignominia, nota atque ignominia, nota turpitodinis, macula sceleris, probrum, flagitium.
blemish v.
maculare, commaculare maculis aspergere: deformare, turpare, corrumpere; infuscare, foedare, inquinare, labeculam aspergere (with dative): maculis aspergere; violare, laedere. To blemish anybody’s reputation, de existimatione alicujus detrahere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for blemish?
- The usual Latin words for “blemish” are macula, lābēs, naevus; also vitium, turpitūdō, ignōminia. 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.