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“coarseness” in Latin
crassitūdōthickness (measure of); density; sediment, dregsinhūmānitāsinhumanity; barbarity, savagery; surliness, churlishnessrūsticitāsrusticity (country life and people); uneducation, idiocymaledīcōto slander, speak ill of; to curseprobrumdisgrace, shame; abuse, insultcontumēliainsult, reproach, contumely, abuse, mistreatment; affront, invective; humiliation, injury; assault, violence
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
coarseness
opposed to fineness, crassitudo.
Roughness of manners, etc., inhumanitas, inurbanitas: rusticitas. Coarseness of speech, verba rustica (rough, coarse words): maledicta: probra: probra et maledicta (abuse, etc.): contumeliae (insulting language). Coarseness of mind, ingenium incultum (want of cultivation): asperitas animi (savage coarseness): feritas animi. A savage or brutal coarseness of mind, feritas animi et agrestis immanitas. Coarseness of manners, mores agrestes or feri.
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- What is the Latin word for coarseness?
- The usual Latin words for “coarseness” are crassitūdō, inhūmānitās, rūsticitās; also maledīcō, probrum, contumēlia. 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.