English → Latin
“hypocritical” in Latin
fingōto shape, fashion, form, knead (dough); to touch, touch gently, stroke, stroke gently, handle; to adorn, dress, arrangesimulōto make like, simulate, imitate, copy, represent; to feign, pretend; to behave or act (as if, as though)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
hypocritical
fictus (of men and things): simulatus (of things only). (The words are found in this connection and order.) fictus et simulatus. Hypocritical looks, ficti et simulati vultus: to deceive anybody by a hypocritical pretence offriendship, per simulationem amicitiae aliquem fallere (after Cic., ad Quir. p. red., 9, 21). I am glad to see you at last stripped of those hypocritical pretences of yours, libenter te aliquando evolutum illis integumentis dissimulationis tuae nudatumque perspicio (Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for hypocritical?
- The usual Latin words for “hypocritical” are fingō, simulō. 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.