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“gloom” in Latin
trīstitiasadness, sorrow, melancholy, sloth; the (sad) state of things; moroseness, sournessmaestitiasadness, sorrow, grief, dejection, melancholycālīgōfog, mist, vapor; darkness, gloom; fog, darkness (inability to perceive mentally)tenebraedarkness, especially the darkness of night; shadow of death; prison, dungeon
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
gloom
PROPR., [Vid: DARKNESS.]
IMPROPR., With reference to the countenance or mind, tristitia: moestitia (sadness; SYN. in SAD): moestus et conturbatus vultus (the saddened countenance): caligo (e.g., caligo bonorum, the gloom that filled the mind of good citizens, Cic., Prov. Cons., 18, 43: also, of the gloomy aspect oj the times [Vid: GLOOMY]: tenebrae (e.g., to throw a gloom over anybody or anything, aliquid tenebrarum offundere, Cic., Tusc., 3, 34, 82; also, lucem eripere et quasi noctem quandam rebus offundere, Cic., N.D., 1, 3, 6; also of the gloomy aspect of things, tenebrae reipublicae, Cic.). A certain gloom of mind, contractiuncula quaedam animi (Cic.). To dispel anybody’s (mental) gloom, caliginem ab animo tamquam ab oculis dispellere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for gloom?
- The usual Latin words for “gloom” are trīstitia, maestitia, cālīgō; also tenebrae. 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.