English → Latin
“energy” in Latin
volōto wish, to please; to want; to mean, to intendvirtūsmanhood, manliness, virility; courage, valor, resoluteness, gallantry; virtue, goodnessvigorvigor, liveliness, activity; power, strengthgravitāsweight, heaviness; gravity, seriousness; severity, harshnessfervorboiling heat; fermenting; ardour, passion, furyācrimōniasharpness, pungency; acrimony, austerityimpetusan attack, an assault, a charge; a rapid motion; impulse, vehemence, ardor, passionrōbura tough-wooded oak tree; hardness; strengthnervusa cord, string, thong or wire; the leather with which shields were covered; a fiberverbumword; proverb, saying; verb
The English word energy itself goes back to Latin energīa.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
energy
vis (force, emphasis): virtus: vigor (life and spirit, both of animate and inanimate things): gravitas (weight, energy of words, etc., verborum, sententiarum): fervor (heat): acrimonia (pungent or stinging energy, rare): impetus (energy attack in a speech, aliter in oratione nec impetus ullus nec vis esse potest, Cic.): robur: nervi (strength of mind, energy of character). Anything requires all your energy of character, aliquid tuorum est nervorum (Cic.). The energy of a speaker, virtus oratoris: vis oratoris, dicentis: virtus oratoria: with something of energy, cum quadam virtute. What energy there is in that book! quantum in illo libro vigoris est! (Sen.) A man of energy, vir fortis, acer.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for energy?
- The usual Latin words for “energy” are volō, virtūs, vigor; also gravitās, fervor, ācrimōnia. 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.