English → Latin
“engaging” in Latin
suāvissweet, pleasant, deliciousiūcunduspleasant, agreeable, delightful, pleasing, deliciousblanduspleasant, agreeable; enticing, seductive, alluring; persuasivedēlectōto delight, charm, please (+ accusative the person, who is delighted)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
engaging
suavis: jucundus: blandus: suavitate refertus; quod nos capit, delectat, or delectatione allicit. Engaging manners, mores suaves: morum suavitas: an engaging character, ingenium mite et amoenum (Tac., Ann., 2, 64, 3). An engaging style, speciosum dicendi genus: an engaging writer, scriptor lectorem tenens: an engaging person, homo blandus; *cui magna ad se illiciendi et attrahendi vis inest: engaging conversation, sermo festivus, venustus et urbanus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for engaging?
- The usual Latin words for “engaging” are suāvis, iūcundus, blandus; also dēlectō. 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.