English → Latin
“faultless” in Latin
ēmendōto free from faults, correct, improve, remedy, amend, revise, cure; to correct by punishment, chastise, atone or compensinnocēnsharmless, inoffensive, innoxious; blameless, guiltless, innocentvacōto be empty, void; to be unoccupied, vacant; to be idle, at leisure
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
faultless
ab omni vitio vacuus: vitio purus (free from faults, whether moral or physical; of persons or things): emendatus (cleared of faults, of writings, etc.): emendate descriptus (copied without any fault; of MSS., books, etc.): innocens (in a moral sense). A faultless character, innocentia (☞ Bremi, Nep., Arist., 1, 2): a faultless life, vita vitio carens et sine labe peracta (Ov., Pont., 2, 7, 49): to be faultless, sine vitiis esse, vitiis carere or vacare (of persons and things); vitio et labe carere (with regard to morals and conduct; Vid: Ov., Pont., 2, 7, 49, and 4, 8, 20); culpa carere (of persons): to be quite faultless, vitio ab omni remotum esse: omnibus humanis vitiis immunem esse (of persons; Vid: Hor., A.P., 384; Velleius, 2, 35): no man or person is faultless, nemo sine vitiis nascitur (†).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for faultless?
- The usual Latin words for “faultless” are ēmendō, innocēns, vacō. 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.