English → Latin
“boor” in Latin
rūsticusof the country, rural, rustic; unrefined, boorish, coarseagrestisrural; rustic; wild (of or pertaining to land, fields or the countryside); clownish; rude; uncultivated; coarse; savage;inurbānusrustic, ungraceful, unmannerlyincultusuntilled, uncultivated; neglected; unadorned, unpolished
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
boor
rusticus: agrestis (the rusticus violates the conventional, the agrestis even the natural, laws of good behavior): inurbanus (unpolished): incultus (unrultivated). Boors, homines rustici, rustici et agrestes, rustici, agrestes. You are a boor, rusticus es.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for boor?
- The usual Latin words for “boor” are rūsticus, agrestis, inurbānus; also incultus. 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.