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“feeling, feel” in Latin
tangōto touch, grasp; to reach, arrive at, come to a place; to attain tosentiōto feel, to sense, to perceive (with the senses); to perceive, be aware of, to be sensible of, to notice mentally, to uniūdiciumjudgment, decision; opinion; trialcōnscientiaknowledge shared with others, being in the know or privy to, joint knowledge; complicity; knowledge within oneself, consafficiōto cause someone to experience something; to visit, inflict, bestow; to treat, manage, handle; to influence, have an effintellegentiaintelligence, the power of discernment; understanding, knowledge; taste, skill, the capacity to be a connoisseurnātūrathe nature, quality, substance or essence of a thing; character, temperament, inclination, disposition; nature, the natu
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
feeling, feel
The sense of touch, tactus: sensus (the faculty of feeling, and the sensation felt; also of mental sensations and feelings): judicium (the faculty of forming a judgement of anything; Vid: Cic., Or., 8, 25; De Opt. gen., 4, 11): conscientia (consciousness, of anything, alicujus rei; Vid: Liv., 8, 4; ☞ 3, 60): affectus (the permanent state of the mind, the sentiment). A refined feeling, judicium elegans; judicii elegantia (with reference to perceiving the nature of anything with proper taste and discrimination): a correct and fine feeling, sincerum judicium et elegans; judicium intelligens or intelligentia (the correct feeling of a connoisseur). ☞ In many cases, however, our notion of “feeling for anything, must be conceived in Latin in a more concrete manner; e.g., natural feeling, natura: good natural feeling, naturae bonitas (Vid: Cic., Off., 1, 2, 5; si non interdum naturae bonitate vincatur): tender, moral feeling, pudor (Cic., Fin., 3, 2, 9): human feelings, humanitas: moral feeling, verecundia: the feeling of joy or pleasure, laetitia: a feeling for the beautiful, elegantia (good taste); venustas (grace that anybody displays; Vid: Plin., 35, 10, 36, No. 10, § 79; ☞ “sensus pulchritudinis” or “pulchri” is barbarous): to entertain a feeling, sensu praeditum esse; of anything, sentire aliquid, alicujus rei sensu moveri: to have no feeling, sensu carere: nihil sentire: nullius rei sensu moveri: a sensu abesse or alienum esse (PROP.); durum, ferreum, inhumanum esse: inhumano esse ingenio (IMPROP.): to be quite without feeling, tactu sensuque omni carere, also with the addition of sine quo nihil sentitur (PROP.); omnem humanitatem exuisse, abjecisse: obduruisse et omnem humanitatem exuisse: omnem humanitatis sensum amisisse (IMPROP.): without feeling, sensus expers; a sensu (a sensibus) alienatus; nihil sentiens (PROP.); durus: ferus: ferreus: inhumanus (IMPROP.): to have no feeling of pain, carere omni sensu doloris: if the dead have any feeling, si quis est in morte sensus: the countenance reveals all the feelings of the mind, vultus sensus animi indicant: the natural feeling of mankind, communis sensus omnium: to touch anybody’s feelings, alicujus sensus inflectere († Verg.; i. e., to inspire affection): those are instinctive feelings, ea sunt communibus infixa sensibus (Cic.): all the good partook of this feeling, unus sensus fuit bonorum omnium (Cic.): anybody’s political feelings, alicujus sensus de republica: you will not find the same feeling among the better sort that existed when you left us, non offendes eundem bonorum sensum, quem reliquisti (Cic.): to lose one’s feeling, sensum amittere (PROP.); animus obdurescit, occallescit (IMPROP.; to become hard-hearted): anything produces or excites various feelings within me, varie afficior aliqua re: to judge of anything not by rules, but by a certain natural feeling, non arte aliqua, sed naturali quodam sensu judicare aliquid: to judge after one’s own feelings, de suo sensu judicare: according to the feeling of my heart, ex animi mei sensu (Cic., Rosc. Am., 44, extr.): to open all one’s feelings to anybody, alicui sensus suos aperire (one’s thoughts; Nep.): to confide or reveal to anybody one’s innermost feelings, alicui intimos suos sensus detegere (one’s sentiments; Sen., Ep., 96, 1): from a feeling of one’s weakness, conscientia, quid abesset virium: want of feeling, torpor (PROP.); animus durus; ingenium inhumanum (IMPROP.): the organs of feeling, sensus or tactus membra, orum (after Plin., 10, 70, 89): the impressions made by feeling, demissa per tactum or sensum (after Hor., A.P. 180).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for feeling, feel?
- The usual Latin words for “feeling, feel” are tangō, sentiō, iūdicium; also cōnscientia, afficiō, intellegentia. 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.