English → Latin
“boorish” in Latin
rūsticānusrusticagrestisrural; rustic; wild (of or pertaining to land, fields or the countryside); clownish; rude; uncultivated; coarse; savage;rūsticusof the country, rural, rustic; unrefined, boorish, coarseinurbānusrustic, ungraceful, unmannerlyincultusuntilled, uncultivated; neglected; unadorned, unpolishedsubrūsticussomewhat clownish, somewhat unrefinedsubagrestissomewhat rustic; rather boorish
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.
Quick answer
- 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.