English → Latin
“hardship” in Latin
laborwork; labor, toil, exertion; hardship, trouble, fatigue, suffering, drudgery, distressaerumnaneed, want; trouble, toil, hardship; distress, tribulation, calamitymiseriamisfortune; misery (great unhappiness)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
hardship
labor (great exertion): gravis molestia (great trouble): aerumna (tribulation): miseria (need and misery). To endure all the hardships of life, labores exanclare. Vid: TROUBLE.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for hardship?
- The usual Latin words for “hardship” are labor, aerumna, miseria. 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.