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“gross” in Latin
ponderōsusheavy, weighty, ponderouscrassusdense, thick, solid; fat, gross, plump; concentrated, thick; turgidvāstusEmpty, unoccupied, i.e. waste, desert.; Desolate, deserted, made lonely.; Wasted by destruction, laid waste, ravaged, deampluslarge, spacious, roomy; abundant, ample; impetuous, violent, strongimmānisimmense, enormous, huge, vast; brutal, inhuman, frightful, savagegravisheavy; pregnant; troublesome, hardinerswithout skill, unskilled, unskillful, incompetent, crude; inactive, lazy, idle, indolent, sluggish, inert; worthless; stmagnusgreat, large, big; (of things) vast, extensive, spacious (of physical size or quantity); great, grand, mighty, noble, lorudisrough, raw, uncultivated; unrefined, unskilled, awkward; rudeasperrough, uneven, coarse; unrefined, rude; sharp, newly minted
The English word gross itself goes back to Latin grossus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
gross
Bulky, ponderosus (ponderous): crassus (thick): vasti corporis (clumsy): vastus: amplus: immanis [SYN. in HUGE]: gravis (heavy): tardus et paene immobilis (slow to move; e.g., animal): corpore vastus (of clumsy structure; of living beings): iners (unfit for acting): magnus (great; of mistakes, etc., tria magna peccata): to be without gross faults, abesse ab ultimis vitiis: to tell gross lies, impudenter mentiri.
Coarse, rudis: asper (rough in manners): rusticus (clownish): impolitus: intonsus (without all cultivation or breeding). (The words are found in this connection and order.) intonsus et incultus: ineruditus (without breeding or education): inhumanus: inurbanus (unmannerly): to be very gross, a cultu et humanitate abesse: a gross fellow, homo rusticus: merum rus (the latter, stronger term): gross abuse, maledicta: probra. (The words are found in this connection and order.) probra et maledicta, gravissimae verborum contumeliae: to descend to gross abuse, ad gravissimas verborum contumelias descendere; aspere or contumeliose invehi in aliquem; probris et maledictis vexare aliquem: gross manners or conduct, mores agrestes or feri: rusticitas (the latter post-Augustan).
The gross amount [Vid: the TOTAL].
Indelicate, indecorus (opposed to decorus; e.g., laughter, risus; but indecens is foreign to classic prose): turpis (ugly, both in a physical and moral sense; e.g., word, manner, dress, etc): illiberalis (not worthy of or suiting a free-born man): gross behavior, indignitas; mores turpes; turpitudo: gross flattery, adulationes indecorae or foedae: a gross jest, jocus illiberalis, invidiosus.
Dull, Vid: GROSS, s., Vid: WHOLESCALE.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for gross?
- The usual Latin words for “gross” are ponderōsus, crassus, vāstus; also amplus, immānis, gravis. 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.