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“disappointment” in Latin
dēstitūtiōdesertion; betrayalfrūstrātiōa deception, trick; disappointment, frustration; the act of delaying or keeping backmalusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, mincommodusinconvenient, unsuitable, unfit, unseasonable; troublesome, disagreeablerepellōto drive, push or thrust back or away; reject, repulse, repel; to drive away, reject, remove, discard; keep off, hold baimpetrōto accomplish, succeed; to obtain, procure
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
disappointment
destitutio (the being deserted by anybody, who has broken an implied or actual promise): successus nullus (want of success): frustratio (e.g., quo magis me petiverunt, tanto majorem iis frustratio dolorem attulit, Planc, ap. Cic., Epp., 10, 23, 25): malum, incommodum (an evil; an annoyance): repulsa (rejection of one’s suit). To meet with a disappointment (= refusal), repulsam ferre. You shall not meet with a disappointment (= refusal), haud repulsus abibis; quidquid me ores, impetrabis (after Plaut., Capt. 3, 2, 14). Mostly by circumlocution. I have met with a disappointment, spes me fefellit, delusit, frustrata est; spe deceptus sum; a spe destitutus sum. After this disappointment, ubi id parum processit (when this attempt failed, Liv.). Anything has been a great disappointment to me, molestiam trahere or capere ex aliqua re.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for disappointment?
- The usual Latin words for “disappointment” are dēstitūtiō, frūstrātiō, malus; also incommodus, repellō, impetrō. 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.