English → Latin
“grievance” in Latin
molestiatrouble, troublesomeness, irksomeness; uneasiness, annoyance; molestationonusburden, load; cargo, freight; tax, tax burdenincommodusinconvenient, unsuitable, unfit, unseasonable; troublesome, disagreeablemalusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, miniūriainjury, wronging, offense, insult, wrong; injustice, wrongdoing; damage, harm, hurt, injuryquerimōniacomplaint (grievance)querēlacomplaint, protest, grievance; illness; lament
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
grievance
molestia (annoying circumstance): onus (burden): incommodum (circumstance that thwarts one, etc.): malum (evil): injuria (injury inflicted, felt): querimonia (complaint, as utterance of pain or annoyance, on account of injury really suffered): querela (complaint, respecting either a real or an imaginary injury). To allege a number of grievances on either side, multas querimonias ultro citroque jactare: the grievance of paying tithes, decumarum imperia or injuriae: to relieve anybody from a grievance, onere aliquem liberare: to have many grievances to complain of, multis incommodis premi: an angry letter full of grievances, epistola plena stomachi et querelarum: statement of the grievances they had to allege against you, querimoniae de injuriis tuis (Cic.): they had so many grievances to complain of, that, etc., tanta vis erat injuriarum, ut, etc.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for grievance?
- The usual Latin words for “grievance” are molestia, onus, incommodus; also malus, iniūria, querimōnia. 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.