English → Latin
“correctly” in Latin
iūstusjust, righteous; lawful, legal; justified, merited, well-deserved, duerēctusled straight along, drawn in a straight line, straight, upright.; right, correct, proper, appropriate, befitting.; moralvērustrue, real, actual (conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct); true, genuine (not counterfeipūrusclear, limpid; clean; pureēmendōto free from faults, correct, improve, remedy, amend, revise, cure; to correct by punishment, chastise, atone or compensaccūrōto take care of, do something with care, attend or give attention toēlegānsfine, elegant, handsome; tasteful; fastidious, critical
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
correctly
juste: recte: vere: pure: emendate: accurate: eleganter [SYN. in CORRECT, adjective]. To conclude (= infer) correctly, recte concludere: to judge correctly, vere judicare: not to judge correctly, perperam judicare: to speak correctly, pure or emendate dicere; pure et Latine dicere: not correctly, vitiose: barbare: male (all of language). [Vid: INCORRECTLY.] You state it correctly, plane ita res est, ut dicis; res ita se habet (ut dicis): to discuss a subject correctly, accurate disputare (de aliqua re, fully and particularly): printed correctly, emendate descriptus; *ab omnibus vitiis purus: to print a book correctly, librum emendate describere: to write correctly, emendate scribere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for correctly?
- The usual Latin words for “correctly” are iūstus, rēctus, vērus; also pūrus, ēmendō, accūrō. 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.