English → Latin
“grim” in Latin
truxwild, rough, harsh, savage, fierce, ferocious; grim, sterntruculentussavage, ferocious; harsh, stern, cruel; stormytorvussavage, fierce, harsh, stern; pitiless, grimferōxwild, bold, fierce; defiant, arrogant
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
grim
trux: truculentus (both mostly in poetry, but also Ciceronian, quam teter incedebat, quam truculentus, quam terribilis aspectu, Sest., 8, 19): torvus (poetical and post-Augustan, prose): ferox. A grim look, vultus torvus, trux; oculi truces; truculenti oculi (Plaut., Asia. 2, 3, 21); aspectus trux (Pacuvius, ap. Cic.). To put on as grim a look as possible against anybody, quam truculentissime aliquem aspicere: from this grim tribune, ab hoc horrido ac truce tribuno plebis (Cic.): to look grim (= sour), vultus acerbos or tristes sumsisse.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for grim?
- The usual Latin words for “grim” are trux, truculentus, torvus; also ferōx. 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.