English → Latin
“immense” in Latin
immēnsusimmeasurable, boundless, endless, vast, immenseīnfīnītusboundless, unlimited, endless; infiniteimmānisimmense, enormous, huge, vast; brutal, inhuman, frightful, savageingēnshuge, vast, enormous; immoderate, exorbitant; extraordinary, unnaturalpecūniamoney; wealth; cash, ready money, liquid wealthpraedaplunder, booty, pillage, spoils of war, property taken in war; prey, game taken in the hunt; gain, profitingeniuminnate or natural quality, natural character; nature; disposition, temper, inclination; intelligence, natural capacity
The English word immense itself goes back to Latin immēnsus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
immense
immensus (that cannot be measured; of every kind of extension, PROP. and IMPROP.): infinitus (unconfined by any limit, unbounded). (The words are found in this connection and order.) immensus et infinitus: ingens immensusque: immensus et interminatus in omnes partes: immanis (huge; e.g., pecuniae, praeda): ingens (greater than what is usually produced; beyond the usual size of the thing in question; from in and genus, gens, or rather the root “genitive”: pecunia, arbor, ingenium, etc.). An immense difference, quanta maxima esse potest distantia: this was of immense use, hoc mirum quantum profuit (ad aliquid; e.g., concordiam civitatis, Liv., 2, 1). He is of immense use to me, mirabiles utilitates mihi praebet: there is an immense difference between A. and B., differt inter A. et B. nimium quantum (in Horace, immane quantum discrepat res rei).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for immense?
- The usual Latin words for “immense” are immēnsus, īnfīnītus, immānis; also ingēns, pecūnia, praeda. 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.