English → Latin
“darkly” in Latin
obscūrusdark, dusky, shadowy; indistinct, unintelligible, obscure; intricate, involved, complicatedperplexusentangled, involved, intricate, confused; unintelligible, complicated, intricate, inscrutable, ambiguous; dark, obscure
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
darkly
obscure; perplexe: to speak darkly, obscure dicere; abscondite disserere: to see, as through a glass, darkly, quasi per caliginem cernere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for darkly?
- The usual Latin words for “darkly” are obscūrus, perplexus. 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.