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“hot” in Latin

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

hot
PROPR., calidus (warm, more or less; opposed to frigidus): candens (of a glowing heat, red hot): fervens: fervidus (boiling hot): aestuans (that really, or, as it were, boils up or ferments with heat): aestuosus (full of boiling or fermenting heat, sultry; e.g., a wind, a day, road, etc.): ardens: flagrans (on fire, inflames; figuratively, of the passions): red hot, rutilus: a hot day, dies calidus, fervens, aestuosus: in hot weather, and along a dusty road, I ended my journey, iter conficiebamus aestuosa et pulverulenta via: to be hot, calere, candere, fervere, aestuare (with the same difference as the adjectives above): to grow or become hot, calefieri: calescere: incalescere: fervescere: effervescere: candescere: incandescere, also with aestu (this, however, only with the poets): to make or render hot, calefacere (also figuratively = to roast anybody; to attack or set upon him with words; Vid: Cic., Quint. Fr., 3, 2, in.); fervefacere (PROP.). To be hot, candere (to grow red by the heat of fire): ardere (to be on fire): fervere (to be boiling hot): aestuare (stronger than fervere = to be in agitation and ferment through heat). FIG., ardere (of the glow of the eyes; then, also, of the heat of the passions): flagrare (stronger than ardere, of the wild bursting forth of violent passions): to be hot with anger, ira ardere or flagrare: to be hot after anybody (i. e., to feel violent love), ardere amore alicujus (☞ poetically, ardere aliquo or aliquem). A hot soil, solum fervens or (stronger) aestuosum (Plin., 15, 5, 6; 17, 19, 31): hot wines, vina fervida (Hor., Sat., 2, 8, 38). Hot oven, furnus calidus (Plaut.). Hot-air pipes, impressi parietibus tubi, per quos circumfunditur calor, qui ima simul et summa fovet aequaliter. Hot springs, aquae calidae or calentes; aquae calidae, or aquarum calentium fontes.
figuratively, (a) Too lively, too violent, calidus: ardens: fervens or fervidus: acer (violent; then, also, very lively): a hot horse, equus calidus or acer: a hot temper, ingenium ardens or fervidum: a hot youth, a youth of hot temperament, juvenis ferventis animi: hot in one’s decisions, rapidus in consiliis suis (Liv., 22, 12): a hot engagement, pugna acris; proelium acre: where the battle is at the hottest, ubi Mars est atrocissimus (Liv., 2, 46): when the contest became hotter, certamine acoenso: there was some hot fighting, acriter pugnabatur; magna vi certabatur; acriter or acerrime proeliabantur (sc. nostri et equites): hot after anything (too eager or desirous for it), flagrans cupiditate alicujus rei; cupidissimus alicujus rei. (b) Angry, inclined to anger, iratus: iracundus: praeceps ingenio in iram: pronus in iram (general terms): concitatus (roused, excited, as a mob): ira incensus, flagrans, ardens (very angry): to be hot, ira flagrare, ardere (figuratively, to be very angry): anybody is terribly hot, aliquis furenter irascitur.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for hot?
The usual Latin words for “hot” are calidus, candeō, ferveō; also fervidus, aestuō, aestuōsus. 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.