English → Latin
“grievous” in Latin
gravisheavy; pregnant; troublesome, hardatrōxfierce, savage, bloody; heinous, cruel, severe; terrible, frightening, dreadfulfoedustreaty, compact, alliance, truce, league; agreement, bond, contract, compact, pact, pledge, conditions, terms; covenantmolestustroublesome, irksome, grievous, annoying, tiresomemagnusgreat, large, big; (of things) vast, extensive, spacious (of physical size or quantity); great, grand, mighty, noble, lodūrushard; rough; harsh; hardy; vigorousinīquusunjust, unfair; unequal, uneven; unfavourable, disadvantageousacerbusharsh, bitter, unripe, sour, premature, not yet marriageable; sharp, severe, bitter (i.e., extremely painful); rough, viperacerbusvery harsh, bitter, sour; very painful
The English word grievous itself goes back to Latin gravis, through gravō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
grievous
gravis (heavy, oppressive, and hence painful; e.g., illness, wound): atrox (atrocious; e.g., crime, bloodshed): foedus (horrible): molestus (hard to be borne): magnus (great): durus (hard): iniquus (not just, pressing, heavy): acerbus (bitter, harsh, painful; e.g., death): very grievous, peracerbus: to utter grievous complaints, graviter or invidiose queri aliquid; against anybody, graviter accusare aliquem: it is a grievous thing (that), valde dolendum est: nothing more grievous could have happened to me, nihil acerbius, or nihil ad dolorem acerbius mihi accidere potuit: to inflict grievous pain on anybody, quam acerbissimum dolorem inurere alicui: grievous times (or state of things), res miserae; tempora misera or dura; iniquitas temporum: a grievous taxation, or grievous taxes, tributa acerba: the injustices or iniquities became so grievous, that, etc., tanta erat vis injuriarum, ut, etc.: that is very grievous to me, hoc valde me urit, pungit, mordet.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for grievous?
- The usual Latin words for “grievous” are gravis, atrōx, foedus; also molestus, magnus, dūrus. 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.