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“clearness” in Latin
clāritāsclarity, brightness, vividness; fame, glory, renownsplendorsheen, brightness, brilliance, luster, splendor; renown, famecandora dazzling or glossy whiteness; clearness, radiance, brightness; fairness, beauty; glow, heatserēnitāsserenity, peacefulness; fine weather; favourable conditionsserēnusClear, fair, bright, serene, tranquil.; That clears the sky or brings fair weather.; Cheerful, glad, joyous, bright; clesūdusdry; bright, clearingeniuminnate or natural quality, natural character; nature; disposition, temper, inclination; intelligence, natural capacitypellūcĭdĭtastransparencyperspicuitāstransparency, clarity; perspicuityēvidēnsapparent, visible, evident, manifest, plain, clear
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
clearness
claritas (general term): splendor: candor (brightness): serenitas (of the sky), also serenum; sudum: acies mentis or ingenii; ingenii acumen (of the understanding): pelluciditas (Vitr., 2, 8, 10), or perspicuitas (perspicuity: also of the transparency of glass): evidentia, also lux (with reference to the mind or understunding). ☞ Tac., Dial., 23. 6. plenitas (not planitas) sententiarum is the correct reading; Vid: Ruperti: splendor vocis (clearness of the voice; splendor verborum. however = beauty of expression, Vid: Cic., Brut., 49, 164, and Plin., Ep., 7, 9, 2): elegantia (clearness and correctness of expression, with reference to grammar, Cic.., De Or., 3, 10; 39).
Purity, munditia: mundities: castitas: integritas. ☞ Puritas is to be rejected from classical prose. Clearness of language, sermo purus, or emendatns, or purus et emendatus (by no means sermonis puritas); incorrupta integritas: incorrupta sanitas (clearness of expression, as quality of the orator, Cic., Brut, 35, 132; De Ope. Gen, 3, 8): mundities verborum or orationis (clearness in speech; i. e., the absence of all vulgarisms. etc., Gell., 1, 23; 10, 3): caeli serenitas (clearness of the sky).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for clearness?
- The usual Latin words for “clearness” are clāritās, splendor, candor; also serēnitās, serēnus, sūdus. 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.