English → Latin
“careful” in Latin
caveōto take precautions, beware, take care; to guard against, attend to a thing for a person, provide; to guard against, to prōvidusprophetic; provident, prudent, circumspect, cautiouscircumspiciōto look around, over, for, upon; to survey, examine or review; to seek or search for, look about for something with desicōnsīderōto examine, look at or inspect, survey; to consider, reflect, contemplate, meditatecūriōsusCareful, diligent, thoughtful, devoted.; Elaborate, complicated.; That injures himself by care; careworn, emaciated, wasdīligōto esteem, prize, love, have regard, to delight in (something); to set apart by choosing, to single (something) out, to accūrōto take care of, do something with care, attend or give attention tosollicitusthoroughly moved, agitated or disturbed; restless, unceasing; troubled, engaged, upset, disturbed, anxious, solicitous; ānxiusafeared, anxious, troubled, uneasy
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
careful
provident, cautious, cautus: providus: circumspectus: consideratus. (The words are found in this connection and order), cautus providusquc; cautus ac diligens: curiosus (applying minute care, especially in investigations; of persons): diligens (proceeding or made with exact attention, etc., of persons and things): accuratus (of things only, made with care). To be careful in anything, curam adhibere de or in aliqua re: curiosum or diligentem esse in aliqua re: diligentiam adhibere ad aliquid or in aliqua re; curam conferre ad aliquid.
Troubled, sollicitus: anxius. (The words are found in this connection and order), anxius ac sollicitus: cura et sollicitudine affectus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for careful?
- The usual Latin words for “careful” are caveō, prōvidus, circumspiciō; also cōnsīderō, cūriōsus, dīligō. 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.