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“ill” in Latin
malusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, mprāvuscrooked, deformed; depraved, perverse, wicked; vicious, wrong, bad, impropernēquiterbadly; wickedlytenuisthin, slender, slim, lank; especially; fine, rare, thin; pure, clear, not coarse; weak, feeble, tenuousmittōto send, dispatch, cause to go, let go, release, discharge; to put out, extend, reach out (one's hand); to announce, telsecusotherwise, to the contrary; differently
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
ill adv.
male: prave: nequiter (wickedly): tenuiter (but poorly; as to a man’s circumstances; Terentianus, Phorm., 1, 2, 29): misere (wretchedly): secus (otherwise; i. e., than as one could wish). To think ill of male cogitare de aliquo: male opinari de aliquo (☞ Bremi, Suet., Oct. 51); malam opinionem de aliquo habere: not to think ill of anybody in any respect, nihil de aliquo secus existimare (Cic.): not to speak ill of anybody in any respect, nihil secus dicere de aliquo (e.g., Quintus... affirmat nihil a se cuiquam secus esse dictum, Cic.): to speak ill of anybody, male loqui alicui: male dicere alicui (the latter = to abuse him, rail at him). I am getting on ill, male me habeo (general term, I am in no pleasant condition): anything is going on ill, aliquid male, or secus cedit, or procedit (Sall.), cadit (Tac.): if it should end ill, si secus accident: to treat anybody ill, male aliquem habere (general term): to wish ill to anybody, alicui male velle: alicui nolle (opposed to alicui cupere or amicum esse, Cic., ad Div., 1, 1, 8): to take anything ill, aegre or moleste ferre (general term, to be displeased or vexed at it); in malam partem accipere; in aliam partem accipere ac dictum est (put a bad construction on it). Pray don’t take it ill, des veniam, oro! To be getting on ill in anything, male proficere in re: to manage one’s affairs ill, male rem gerere: to fear he shall come off ill, metuit, ne malum habeat: you would not have come off ill, discessisses non male (Plaut.). Ill-gotten wealth, male parta (e.g., male parta male dilabuntur, Cic.; ☞ male partum male disperit, Plaut.): to disgorge his ill-gotten wealth, pecuniam devoratam evomere (Cic., Pis., 37): to be ill-provided with anything, aliqua re anguste uti (e.g., frumento).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for ill?
- The usual Latin words for “ill” are malus, prāvus, nēquiter; also tenuis, mittō, secus. 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.