English → Latin
“decry” in Latin
vituperōto censure; to scold, tell off, blame; to disparage, find fault withīnfāmōto defame, dishonor, disgrace; to bring to ill repute; to blame, accuse, chargediffāmōto spread an unfavorable report; to defame, malign, decry; to proclaim or declare widelycrīminorto accuse, denounce, charge; to allege, slander, defame; to reprimand, reproachrhētoricusrhetorical, of or pertaining to rhetoric or a rhetoritician
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
decry
vituperare (to blame, rail at; e.g., rhetoric, rhetoricam, Cic.): infamare (to bring into evil report, aliquid or aliquem): diffamare (seldom and post-Augustan, ; to spread evil reports of a person, so as to make him notorious): alicujus famam dehonestare (by spreading bad reports of him): rem suspectam infamemque criminando facere (Liv. 8, 23): criminari: invidiose criminari (Cic.; e.g., alicujus potentiam, auctoritatem, res gestas, etc.): alicujus laudi obstrepere (post-Augustan, Sen.); de fama or existimatione alicujus detrahere (to slander him; try to lessen his reputation): calumniari aliquem or aliquid (to censure maliciously). To decry the art of rhetoric, vituperare rhetoricam (Cic.); criminari rhetoricen vitiis (Quint..): to decry anybody’s achievements, criminari alicujus res gestas argumentando (Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for decry?
- The usual Latin words for “decry” are vituperō, īnfāmō, diffāmō; also crīminor, rhētoricus. 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.