English → Latin
“botch” in Latin
tūberculumdiminutive of tūber; a small swelling, bump, or protuberance; a boil, pimple, tuberclecicātrīxscarvitiumflaw, defect, blemish, imperfection; vice; crime, wrongdoing, misdeed, sin, error, faultresarciōto patch or mend again; to repair or restoreīnfabrēunskillfullycorrumpōto pervert, corrupt, deprave or infect; to gain to oneself by gifts, etc.; bribe; to spoil or rotdēfōrmōto form, fashion; to design, delineate, describe; to deform, disfigure; to spoil, marturpōto make ugly; disfigure, deform, mar; defile, pollute; to dishonor, disgracetūbera hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence; the cyclamen or other similar plants with tuberous roots; a truffle (cōnfingōto form, fashion, fabricate; to invent, devise, feign, pretend
The English word botch itself goes back to Latin bocia.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
botch
tuber. Little botch, tuberculum. Full of botches, taberosus.
Clumsy patch, etc., pannus male assutus; cicatrix; vitium.
botch v.
male sarcire or resarcire; infabre or inscienter fecere; corrumpere, deformare, turpare: tuberibus or ulceribus turpare (mark with botches). To botch up, inscienter facere, confingere; ementiri.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for botch?
- The usual Latin words for “botch” are tūberculum, cicātrīx, vitium; also resarciō, īnfabrē, corrumpō. 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.