English → Latin
“blind” in Latin
caecusblind (not seeing); blind, blinded (mentally or morally); blind, at random, vague, indiscriminate, aimless, meaningless,oculuseye; sight, vision; luminary of the sun and starsoccaecōto make blind, deprive of sight; to darken, obscure; to hide, conceal, covertemerāriusaccidental; casual, rash, heedless; recklessstultusfoolish, fatuous, stupid, ill-consideredoperiōto cover (over something); envelop; to shut, close; (by extension); to hide, conceal, dissemblefingōto shape, fashion, form, knead (dough); to touch, touch gently, stroke, stroke gently, handle; to adorn, dress, arrangesimulōto make like, simulate, imitate, copy, represent; to feign, pretend; to behave or act (as if, as though)coclesone-eyed person; half-blind personluscusone-eyed; half blind, blind in one eye; with one eye shut, as when taking aim
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
blind
caecus, oculis or luminibus captus, luminibus orbatus. Blind of one eye, cocles, luscus (born so): altero oculo captus (become so): unoculus. Blind-born, caecus genitus (caecigenus, poetical). To become blind, lumina oculorum, or lumina, or aspectum amittere.
As to the mind, caecus, occaecatus, mente captus, temerarius, stultus. Fortune makes her favorites blind, fortuna eos caecos efficit (stultos facit), quos complexa est. A blind imitation, caeca or temeraria imitatio; prejudice, falsa opinio. To show anybody a blind obedience, totum se ad alicujus nutum et voluntatem convertere.
Hidden, dark, etc., caecus; opertus. A blind ditch, fossa caeca or operta.
False, caecus, fictus, simulatus. A blind window, fenestra ticta or simulata; fenestrae imago.
blind v.
caecum reddere, caecare, excaecare, oculis privaro, luminibus orbare; oculos effodere, eruere alicui (to tear out the eyes). To be blinded (by long exposure to the sun, for instance), aspectum amittere.
For a time only; to dazzle, etc., occaecare; oculos or oculorum aciem praestringero.
As to the mind, caecare, occaecare, excaecare aliquem or alicujus mentem; animi or mentis aciem, oculos alicujus praestringere.
By beauty, capere, irretire, in amorem pellicere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for blind?
- The usual Latin words for “blind” are caecus, oculus, occaecō; also temerārius, stultus, operiō. 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.