English → Latin
“hardness” in Latin
dūritiahardness, rigidity; harsh, having a harsh flavor; austerity, severitydūritiēshardness; hardship; strictnessrigōto irrigate, to lead, convey or conduct (a liquid to a place); to wet, moisten, water or bedew something with a liquid; rigiditāsstiffness, rigidity; hardness (of wood)asperitāsunevenness, roughness; harshness, sharpness, acidity, tartness; severity, fierceness, asperityacerbitāssourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit; harshness, severity; sorrowinīquitāsunfairness, inequality, unevenness; injustice, inequity; iniquity
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
hardness
duritia: durities (PROP. and IMPROP., in all relations of the adjective durus; compare with HARD): rigor: rigiditas (want or absence of pliability, brittleness; e.g., of iron, wood, etc; rigor, also, IMPROP. of the stiffness of statues, pictures): asperitas (asperity, roughness, in all the relations of asper; Vid: HARD): acerbitas (bitterness; harsh, oppressive quality, in all the relations of acerbus; Vid: HARD): iniquitas (oppressiveness, trouble; e.g., of the times; then unreasonable severity of persons): animus durus: animi duritas: ingenium durum (hard-heartedness): severitas dura (inexorable severity): animi atrocitas (inhumanity, with reference to the mind; opposed to humanitas et misericordia).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for hardness?
- The usual Latin words for “hardness” are dūritia, dūritiēs, rigō; also rigiditās, asperitās, acerbitās. 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.