English → Latin
“foppish” in Latin
bellusbeautiful, pretty, handsome; pleasant, agreeable, charminginānisempty, void, hollow; vain; purposeless, meaningless, worthless, useless, fruitless, empty, idlevānusvain, empty, vacant, void; unsubstantial; groundless, baseless, meaningless, pointless, worthless, ineffectual, mindlessfūtilisthat easily pours out; that can not contain, leaky; untrustworthy, vain, worthless, futile, frivolous
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
foppish
Foolish, Vid:
Vain in show or of dress, bellus: inanis: vanus: futilis.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for foppish?
- The usual Latin words for “foppish” are bellus, inānis, vānus; also fūtilis. 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.