English → Latin
“flagrant” in Latin
flagrōto burn, blazeimmānisimmense, enormous, huge, vast; brutal, inhuman, frightful, savageflāgitiōsusshameful, disgraceful, scandalous; profligate, dissolutenefandusimpious; heinous, execrable, abominableturpisugly, unsightly; foul, filthy; cacophonous, disagreeable; base, infamous, scandalous, dishonorable, shameful, disgracefufoedustreaty, compact, alliance, truce, league; agreement, bond, contract, compact, pact, pledge, conditions, terms; covenantmagnusgreat, large, big; (of things) vast, extensive, spacious (of physical size or quantity); great, grand, mighty, noble, loācersharp, sour, bitter, pungent; keen, sharp, acute, sagacious; energetic, active, vigorous
The English word flagrant itself goes back to Latin flagrō, through flagrantem.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
flagrant
flagrans (PROP., burning, inflames; then, figuratively, of heat, flagrans aestus, of cheeks on fire, flagrantes genae, and of anything that is of a fiery red color; then of heat, passion, etc.). [Vid. HOT, ARDENT.] A flagrant desire, flagrans cupiditas; magna, acris, or ardens cupiditas.
Enormous, etc., immanis: flagitiosus: nefandus: turpis: foedus, etc. ☞ Not flagrans: in Cod. Just., 9, 13, 1, we find adhuc flagranti crimine comprehensi; but the meaning is, while the crime is still recent, and so evident, notorious, etc.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for flagrant?
- The usual Latin words for “flagrant” are flagrō, immānis, flāgitiōsus; also nefandus, turpis, foedus. 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.