English → Latin
“fresh” in Latin
frīgiduscold, cool, chilling, frigid; indifferent, feeble; dull, flat, insipid, trivial, pointless, vainrecēnsnew, recent, lately, newly, green, refreshed; fresh, lively; young, just whelpedviridisfresh, young, youthful; green in color; abundant with verdureintegercomplete, whole, intact, uninjured, sound, healthyvegetusenlivened, lively, animated, vigorous, active, brisk, sprightlyhilarischeerful, lively, light-hearted, merry, jovialalacerlively; brisk; quick; eager; active; peppy; excited; glad; happy; cheerfulrefrīgerōto cool (off); to chill, to cool; to refreshfrīgerōto cool (refresh with coolness)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
fresh
Cool, frigidus: rather fresh, subfrigidus frigidiusculus (later): to make fresh, refrigerare; frigidum facere (frigerare and frigefactare were uncommon in prose): to become or grow fresh, refrigerari: refrigescere: fresh water, aqua recentis rigoris (Col., 9, 14, 7; fresh drawn, and therefore cool, sparkling, etc.); dulcis aqua (spring water; opposed to aqua marina, salt water): a draught of fresh, water, potio frigida: fresh air, aer frigidus; ventus frigidus; aer refrigeratus (cool air): to breathe the fresh air, refrigerationem aurae captare (Col., 11, 1, 16); caelo libera or liberiore frui; libero aere redintegrari (Varr., R.R., 3, 7, 6).
New made, recently produced or formed, recens: fresh bread, panis recens: a fresh wound, vulnus recens, crudum (not novum): fresh marks of stripes, recentia vestigia plagarum.
Not gone by or withered, recens (e.g., oysters, herrings, etc.): viridis (still green, e.g., wood, etc.): fresh turf, caespes vivus.
Not salted, sale non conditus.
Not used or worn out, hence lively, recens: integer. (The words are found in this connection and order.) recens integerque (not yet tired or worn; opposed to defatigatus, saucius; e.g., troops, horses, etc.): vegetus: hilaris or hilarus (lively, brisk, e.g., color, etc.): alacer: alacer et promptus (lively, brisk for acting): a fresh color, nitidus color: to have anything fresh in one’s recollection, in recenti memoria habere: the recollection of anything is quite fresh, recens est alicujus rei memoria: fresh breeze, ventus secundus (inasmuch as it may be favorable): the fresh appearance of a tree, arboris hilaritas.
Unexperienced, Vid.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for fresh?
- The usual Latin words for “fresh” are frīgidus, recēns, viridis; also integer, vegetus, hilaris. 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.