English → Latin
“immoderate” in Latin
immodicusexcessive, beyond measure; immoderate, unrestrained, extravagantimmoderātusmeasureless, immeasurable; unrestrained, unbridled, excessive, immoderateintemperānsunrestrained, intemperate; licentiousincontinēnsnot containing, not retaining; immoderate, intemperateimpotēnsPowerless, weak, feeble, impotent, helpless, puny.; Unable to control, having no power over; incapable of.; Unbridled, uimmodestusunrestrained, excessive, shamelesseffrēnōto unbridle, let looseeffundōto pour out, shed, spread abroad, drain off; to pour, drive, cast or send out, shower, discharge; to give oneself up to,profundōto pour forth, to lavish; to prostrate; to squanderimmānisimmense, enormous, huge, vast; brutal, inhuman, frightful, savage
The English word immoderate itself goes back to Latin moderātus, through immoderātus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
immoderate
immodicus (exceeding the proper mean or measure; e.g., frigus, also, IMPROP., libido possidendi): immoderatus (not kept within due bounds; e.g., potus; then, IMPROP., removed from all due moral restraint; of men and things; e.g., cupiditates, luxuria): intemperans (not using any restraint: not regulating one’s desires and actions by the law of reason; mostly of persons, but also of things, licentia; in anything, in aliqua re): incontinens (without self-government, as showing itself in command over sensual desires; of persons): impotens (powerless to restrain a strong feeling; hence, also, of the feeling itself which masters us, or any product of such feeling, laetitia, postulatum; also, in anything, alicujus rei): immodestus (going beyond the limits of propriety, etc.; of persons und things; e.g., laus): effrenatus (unbridled; of persons and things, audacia, furor, cupiditas, libido): effusus: profusus (of what is copiously poured forth, as it were; allowed to run on without a check, laetitia: sumtus): immanis (immoderately large; magnitudo, pecuniae, praeda): nimius (too great; arrogantia; celeritates): iniquus (unfair; e.g., pretium). Immoderate in eating, edax; vorax; in drinking, in vino immodestus (Ter., Heaut., 3, 3, 7): in eating and drinking, profundae et intempestivae gulae. To be immoderate in one’s eating, largius se invitare: to be immoderate in one’s demands, immodeste postulare: immoderate in friendship, wrath, love, etc., impotens laetitiae, irae, amoris.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for immoderate?
- The usual Latin words for “immoderate” are immodicus, immoderātus, intemperāns; also incontinēns, impotēns, immodestus. 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.