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“coarse” in Latin
crassusdense, thick, solid; fat, gross, plump; concentrated, thick; turgiddēnsusdense, compact; crowded, close; frequentinhūmānusinhuman; savage, barbarous; uncivil, unmannerly, churlish, discourteousinurbānusrustic, ungraceful, unmannerlyagrestisrural; rustic; wild (of or pertaining to land, fields or the countryside); clownish; rude; uncultivated; coarse; savage;rūsticusof the country, rural, rustic; unrefined, boorish, coarsevulgōto broadcast; to publish; to divulge; to issue; to make known among the people; to make common; to prostitute; to make kvulgusthe common people; the public; throng, crowdinconditusirregular, disordered, confused; uncouth, rudeīnscītusignorant, inexperienced, unskilful; silly, stupid
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
coarse
not fine or tender, crassus (the proper word): densus (thick, with parts closely pressed together): coarse flour, *farina crassa: coarse bread, panis secundarius or secundus: coarse food, victus asper: coarse sand, sabulo: saburra (as ballast): a coarse toga, toga crassa: coarse thread, filum crassum.
Rough, unpolished, inhumanus: inurbanus: agrestis: rusticus |SYN. in BOOR]. (The words are found in this connection and order). ferus agrestisque. A coarse joke, jocus illiberalis: jocus invidiosus (that makes us enemies): coarse manners, mores inculti: rusticitas (coarseness of behavior): a coarse brute, merum rus. To use coarse language against anybody, aspere or contumeliose (the latter meaning in an insulting manner) invehi in aliquem; probris et maledictis vexare aliquem: coarse-minded, horridus; horridus et durus: asperi animi (or by the words given above, inhumanus, etc., which relate more to the want of outward polish than to what it really wroug.
Common, ordinary, vulgaris: or by substantive, vulgus, with the genitive, “coarse pracitioners” (Arbuth.).*vulgus medicorum (after Cic., vulgus patronorum. etc.).
Not made neatly or skillfully, non artificiosus: inconditus: infabre factus: inscitus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for coarse?
- The usual Latin words for “coarse” are crassus, dēnsus, inhūmānus; also inurbānus, agrestis, rūsticus. 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.