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“discredit” in Latin
dēdecusdisgrace, dishonor, infamy, shame, discredit.; That which causes shame; a disgrace, blot, blemish.; A shameful act; viceprobrumdisgrace, shame; abuse, insultafflīgōto strike, beat, dash (against); cast or throw down, prostrate; to afflict, damage, injure, crush, break or ruin; to humafficiōto cause someone to experience something; to visit, inflict, bestow; to treat, manage, handle; to influence, have an effīnferōto carry, bring, put, place, or throw in, into, to, or upon somewhere or something; insert; to bring forward, introduce,ignōminiadishonour, disgrace, degradation, ignominy, shame
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
discredit s.
Want of credit (= reputation), dedecus: probrum. (The words are found in this connection and order.) probrum et dedecus: ignominia et dedecus: dedecus et infamia: macula et dedecus [SYN. in DISGRACE]. To be a discredit, aliquid infamiam habet or infert; fit aliquid dedecori; to anybody, aliquid alicui est turpitudini, or ignominiae, or probro, or infamiae, or dedecori: anybody is a discredit to me, aliquis mihi est dedecori or maculae et dedecori; aliquis me dedecorat: to be a discredit to one’s family, familiam dedecorare: to be no disgrace to the Antonines, nou deesse nomini Antoninorum: to be in discredit, existimationem perdidisse (to have suffered loss of reputation); in invidia esse (to be unpopular; of a public character): to fall into discredit, in dedecus incurrere (Cic.): de existimatione sua aliquid perdere, deperdere; existimationis detrimentum or jacturam facere (to suffer a loss of reputation); auctoritatem, dignitatem amittere: dignitatis jacturam facere (to suffer loss of rank, etc.); in invidiam venire: invidiam subire (to suffer loss of popularity; of a public character): to bring discredit upon anybody; anybody into discredit, de fama alicujus detrahere (to injure his reputation); alicujus auctoritatem levare (to lessen his influence); invidiam alicui facere, conflare (make him unpopular): alicujus famam dehonestare (to cause loss of reputation): to the discredit (of), cum probro et dedecore: to our discredit, cum nostro dedecore: to think anything a discredit to anybody, ducere alicui aliquid probro.
Want of credit (= belief), fides parva, afflicta, affecta (diminished confidence in anybody’s honor): anything has been brought into dishonor, minor alicui rei habetur fides (e.g., fabulis): to bring anything into discredit, abrogare fidem alicui rei (e.g., quae res fidem abrogare orationi, Cic.); imminuere alicujus rei fidem (e.g., orationis, Cic.): to bring anybody into discredit, infirmare fidem alicujus or alicui (Cic.); alicujus fidem minuere; fidem or fidem et auctoritatem derogare alicui rei (of some personal quality; e.g., alicujus virtuti, generi, etc.): *facere or efficere, ut alicui rei minor habeatur fides: fidem levare († Hor.; multa fidem promissa levant): the suspicion of fraud throws discredit on anybody’s testimony, alicui ita habetur fides, ut nulla sit in eo fraudis suspicio.
discredit v.
Not to believe, alicui or alicui rei non credere; fidem non habere; abrogare fidem alicui or alicui rei; fidem alicui denegare; alicui rei fidem non adjungere: [Vid: DISBELIEVE.] To be discredited, alicui rei fides non habetur; aliqua res nullam habet fidem; alicui rei fides derogatur. To cause anything to be discredited, alicui rei or alicujus rei fidem abrogare or derogare; fidem alicujus rei imminuere.
To deprive of good reputation; Vid: to be a discredit to;” “to bring discredit on,” under DISCREDIT, s.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for discredit?
- The usual Latin words for “discredit” are dēdecus, probrum, afflīgō; also afficiō, īnferō, ignōminia. 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.