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“boorish” in Latin

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

boorish
rustic, rupticus, rusticanus, agrestis. [SYN. in BOOR.]
Rude, raw, rusticus, agrestis, inurbanus, incultus. Somewhat boorish, subrusticus, subagrestis.

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What is the Latin word for boorish?
The usual Latin words for “boorish” are rūsticānus, agrestis, rūsticus; also inurbānus, incultus, subrūsticus. 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.