English → Latin
“deleterious” in Latin
perniciōsusdestructive, ruinous, baleful, perniciousexitiōsusdestructive, pernicious, deadlyexitiālisdestructive; fatal, deadlynoceōto injure, do harm to, hurt, damagenoxiushurtful, harmful, injurious, noxious.; guilty, culpable, criminal, delinquent.īnficiōto dip, to dunk, to submerge; to color, to dye, to imbue, to stain, to tinge; to corrupt, to poison, to spoil, to taint,tingōto wet, moisten, dip (in), impregnate (with); to smear; to dip, immerse; to give to drink, treat; to colour, dye, tingetābidusmelting or wasting away, dissolving; decaying, rotting, consuming, putrefying; pining away, languishingtābificusmelting, dissolving; wasting; infectiousvīrulentuspoisonous
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
deleterious
perniciosus; exitiosus; exitialis (the first of an injurious; the two next, of a destructive nature): nocens, noxius, nociturus (hurtful; deleterious substances, ea, quae nocitura videntur): veneno imbutus, or infectus, or tinctus. tabidus: tabificus (e.g., venenum, etc., causing substances to waste away, etc.): virulentus (imbued with poison; or of a poisonous nature): who does not know that this substance is of a deleterious nature? quis non intelligit hanc rem nocere? to be deleterious, nocere; nociturum esse.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for deleterious?
- The usual Latin words for “deleterious” are perniciōsus, exitiōsus, exitiālis; also noceō, noxius, īnficiō. 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.