English → Latin
“cunningly” in Latin
ā̆stūtuscrafty, cunning, shrewd, clever, tricksy (adept at using tricks)calliduswise, clever, ingenious; adroit, skilful, cunning, sly, crafty; discreetversūtusadroit, dexterous, versatile; shrewd, clever, crafty, ingenious; wily, cunning, slyvafersly, cunning, crafty, artful, subtlesubdoluscrafty, cunning, sly, subtledolōsuscrafty, cunning, deceitfulfraudulentusdeceitful, fraudulent; dishonest, falsepereōto perish, pass away, die, be ruined; to vanish, disappear, come to nothing; to leak; to be absorbedscienterskillfully, expertly; knowingly, understandingly, wiselysollertercleverly
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cunningly
Craftily, astute; callide; versute; vafre; subdole; dolose; fraudulenter [SYN. in CUNNING, subst.] .
Skilfully, perite; scienter; solerter; prudenter; dextere or dextre; callide; ingeniose: most cunningly, solertissime.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for cunningly?
- The usual Latin words for “cunningly” are ā̆stūtus, callidus, versūtus; also vafer, subdolus, dolōsus. 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.