English → Latin
“deformed” in Latin
dēfōrmōto form, fashion; to design, delineate, describe; to deform, disfigure; to spoil, mardēfōrmisDeparting physically from the correct shape; deformed, ugly, misshapen, malformed.; Departing morally from the correct qdēprāvōto pervert, distort or disfigure; to seduce, corrupt or depraveprāvuscrooked, deformed; depraved, perverse, wicked; vicious, wrong, bad, improperdistorqueōto turn different ways, twist, distort, warp; to torment, torturemembrumlimb of the body; member.; the penis (membrum virīle); a portion, divisioncrūslegmendōsusfull of faults; faulty, erroneous, incorrect; false, deceptive
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
deformed
deformatus; deformis (ugly): depravatus (corrupted; made worse than it should be): pravus (disproportioned; not such as it should be, membra, crura, etc.): distortus (absolutely of a person; Cic.): pravus extortusque (Juv.): omnibus membris extortus et fractus (from the dislocation and fracture of limbs; Plin.): deformed limbs, prava membra: in pravum elapsi artus (Tac.): deformed by mistakes, mendosus (like a book): terribly deformed, distortissimus (Cic.): insignis ad deformitatem.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for deformed?
- The usual Latin words for “deformed” are dēfōrmō, dēfōrmis, dēprāvō; also prāvus, distorqueō, membrum. 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.