English → Latin
“dishonest” in Latin
malusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, mimprobusexcessive, immoderate, flagrant, impudent; greedy, wanton, ravenous; wicked, bad, villainous, immoral, impious, maliciouīnfidēlisunfaithful; treacherous, disloyal; unbelieving, infidelīnfīdusuntrustworthy, incredible; disloyal, unfaithful; uncertain, unsafeperfidusthat breaks one's promise; false; faithless; dishonest; disloyal; deceitful; treacherous; unsafe; dangeroussubdoluscrafty, cunning, sly, subtlefraudulentusdeceitful, fraudulent; dishonest, falsefallāxdeceptive, deceitful; fallacious, spurioussordidusdirty, filthy, nasty; of poor, mean, base quality, low-browinhonestusdishonorable; disgraceful; shameful
The English word dishonest itself goes back to Latin dĕ-hŏnestus, through dehonestus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
dishonest
Void of honesty, ab honestate remotus: malus (bad; general term): improbus (that is not as it ought to be, according to Divine and human laws): infidelis (unfaithful): infidus (not trustworthy; as to conduct): perfidus (treacherous, in particular actions): subdolus (cunning, crafty): fraudulentus (deceitful): fallax (practised in roguery): sordidus (mean, dirty): inhonestus et sordidus (of a person; dishonorable and dirty).
Dishonoured, inhonestus.
Disgraceful, Vid:
Unchaste, Vid.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for dishonest?
- The usual Latin words for “dishonest” are malus, improbus, īnfidēlis; also īnfīdus, perfidus, subdolus. 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.