English → Latin
“discourteous” in Latin
inurbānusrustic, ungraceful, unmannerlyinhūmānusinhuman; savage, barbarous; uncivil, unmannerly, churlish, discourteousagrestisrural; rustic; wild (of or pertaining to land, fields or the countryside); clownish; rude; uncultivated; coarse; savage;illepidusimpolite, unpleasant, disagreeableinofficiōsusnull and void
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
discourteous
inurbanus (unpolite): inhumanus (of persons or things): agrestis (of persons or things). (The words are found in this connection and order.) agrestis et inhumanus (of things; e.g., negligentia): illepidus (of disagreeable persons): inofficiosus (not ready to perform the duties of civility to those to whom it is due; to anybody, in aliquem, Cic.): To be discourteous, ab humanitate abhorrere (of anybody’s character); inhumaniter facere (of a single act).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for discourteous?
- The usual Latin words for “discourteous” are inurbānus, inhūmānus, agrestis; also illepidus, inofficiōsus. 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.