English → Latin
“dirty” in Latin
lutōsusmuddycaenōsusmuddy, foullutulentusmuddy; turbid; filthy, dirty, vilelutumsoil, dirt, mire, mud; loam, clayobscēnusinauspicious, ominous, portentous; repulsive, offensive, abominable, hateful, disgusting, filthy; immodest, impure, indeimmundusunclean, impure, dirty, filthy, foulspurcusdirty, foul, unclean; morally-polluted, base, meansordidusdirty, filthy, nasty; of poor, mean, base quality, low-browsquālidusstiff, rough; dirty, foul, filthy, neglected, squalidpaedidusnasty, dirty, filthy, stinking
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
dirty
lutosus, coenosus (PROP.; SYN. in DIRT, s.): lutulentus (also figuratively): luto or coeno oblitus; obscenus (creating disgust when we see or hear of it; figuratively, persons, paintings, verses, etc.): immundus (not neat, not clean; opposed to mundus): spurcus (of uncleanness disgusting to the eye or nose; then figuratively = morally impure): sordidus (also figuratively, of one who is dirtily mean, and of low-minded men generally): squalidus (only PROP.): paedidus (offensively dirty in person; very rare, Petronius). Very dirty, sordium plenus; squalore sordidus; squaloris plenus (Cic., of a person): obsitus sordibus, or squalore, paedore horridus: To be dirty, sordere, squalere: to be very dirty, situ squalere: to become dirty, sordescere.
dirty v.
inquinare aliquid aliqua re: maculam facere in aliqua re (cause a spot of dirt on it): maculare (spot it; Plaut., Cato, Verg.). To dirty one’s self, se inquinare aliquare (e.g., sordibus, coeno).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for dirty?
- The usual Latin words for “dirty” are lutōsus, caenōsus, lutulentus; also lutum, obscēnus, immundus. 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.