English → Latin
“enormity” in Latin
īnsolēnsunusual; contrary to custom or one’s own custom; arrogant, haughty, insolentnovitāsnewness, novelty; rareness, strangeness; newness of rankfoeditāsfoulness, filthiness; horridness, hideousness, ugliness, deformityimmānitāsimmensity, vastness, excess; monstrousness, enormity, fierceness, cruelty, barbarism, savageness, inhumanity, frightfulnēnormitāsirregularity; enormitynefāriusnefarious, execrable, abominable, loathsomeimpietāsirreverence, ungodliness, impietysaxumstone, rock (a large, rough fragment of rock); wall of stone
The English word enormity itself goes back to Latin norma, through ēnormitās.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
enormity
insolentia (unusualness): novitas (newness): foeditas (foulness): immanitas (the astonishing magnitude; in a bad sense): enormitas (irregularity; saxorum, Quint., 9, 4, 27; = immense size [enormitas pedum]; Sen., Const., Sapient., 8). Enormities, nefaria, plur., An enormity, facinus nefarium; scelus nefarium; scelestum ac nefarium facinus; monstrum ac prodigium: impietas (violating the reverence due to the gods, parents, princes, one’s country, etc.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for enormity?
- The usual Latin words for “enormity” are īnsolēns, novitās, foeditās; also immānitās, ēnormitās, nefārius. 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.