English → Latin
“fashionable” in Latin
ēlegānsfine, elegant, handsome; tasteful; fastidious, criticalnovusnew, novel; fresh, young; recentscrīptorwriter, author; scribepoētapoet
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
fashionable
elegans (tasteful; of persons): novus (new; of things). Fashionable attire, cultus ad nova exempla compositus (Sen., Tranq., 9, 1): a fashionable writer, poet, etc.; a writer, poet, etc., whose works are fashionable, scriptor or poeta nunc (or, of a past time, tum) maxime placens; scriptor or poeta, cujus opera or carmina hac aetate in manibus sunt (after Plin., Ep., 1, 2, 6): a work which is now fashionable, or which it is now fashionable to admire, *libellus, qui hujus aetatis hominibus in deliciis est; or *quo hujus aetatis homines maxime delectantur, or qui hac aetate in manibus est (after Plin., ut supra).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for fashionable?
- The usual Latin words for “fashionable” are ēlegāns, novus, scrīptor; also poēta. 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.