English → Latin
“churlish” in Latin
illīberālisignoble, ungenerous, sordid, mean, disobliging; niggardly, graspingtenāxclinging; tenacious; close-fisted, niggardly, stingysordidusdirty, filthy, nasty; of poor, mean, base quality, low-browparcussparing, frugal, thrifty; scanty, slight, little, smallrūsticusof 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, unmannerlyrudisrough, raw, uncultivated; unrefined, unskilled, awkward; rudeincultusuntilled, uncultivated; neglected; unadorned, unpolished
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
churlish
illiberalis: tenax: sordidus: parcus.
Clownish, rusticus: agrestis: inurbanus: rudis: incultus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for churlish?
- The usual Latin words for “churlish” are illīberālis, tenāx, sordidus; also parcus, rūsticus, agrestis. 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.