English → Latin
“closely” in Latin
timidusfearful, afraid, apprehensive, timid; cowardlycautuscautious, careful; circumspect, prudent; warydēnsusdense, compact; crowded, close; frequentspissusthick, close, compact, dense, crowded; slow, tardy, late; hard, difficultsolidusdense, solid, not hollow; whole, entire, thorough, full; firmcōnfertimin a compact body, closelyarctēclosely, tightly; compactlypremōto press, push, press close or hard, oppress, overwhelm; to tighten, compress, shorten, press closely, squeeze; to make,angustusnarrow, close, contracted, constricted, confined, small, not spacious; narrow, strait; short, briefarctusalternative spelling of Arctus; used as a specific epithet, meaning bear or bear-like, or northern
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
closely
in a reserved manner, timide: caute.
Thickly, etc., dense: spisse: solide: confertim: arctius.
Concisely, presse.
Narrowly, anguste: arcte: to write closely, arte (or arcte) scribere; paginam contrahere (i. e., for the purpose of getting room on the page or sheet for what one has to say).
Parsimoniously, parce: maligne: tenuiter. (The words are found in this connection and order), parce ac tenuiter (e.g., vivere, to live closely).
In a diligent, attentive manner, omni or summo studio; studiose; studiosissime; enixissime: to attend closely to his books, summo studio discere: to examine anything closely, to look closely into anything, intentis oculis aliquid intueri; intueri aliquid acri et attento animo (Cic.): aliquid studiose intueri (e.g., rerum naturam, Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for closely?
- The usual Latin words for “closely” are timidus, cautus, dēnsus; also spissus, solidus, cōnfertim. 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.