English → Latin
“guileless” in Latin
bonusgood, honest, brave, noble, kind, pleasant; right; usefulprobusgood, serviceable, excellent, superior, able; upright, honest, virtuous, moral, proveninnocēnsharmless, inoffensive, innoxious; blameless, guiltless, innocentintegercomplete, whole, intact, uninjured, sound, healthysimplexsingle; simple, plain, uncompounded; pure, unmixed
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
guileless
bonus: probus (honest): innocens: integer (on whose life there is no blemish): simplex (in which no other sense is concealed, not open to different interpretations; e.g., words; Vid: Bremi, Suet., Tib., 61; also of persons): sine fraude (without deception).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for guileless?
- The usual Latin words for “guileless” are bonus, probus, innocēns; also integer, simplex. 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.