English → Latin
“immortality” in Latin
immortālitāsimmortality; divinityaeternitāseternity (only in an abstract, non-countable sense)immortālisimmortal, undying, not subject to death.animuslife, life force, soul, vitality (that life-giving aspect which animates a thing); conscience, intellect, mind, reason, sempiternuseverlasting, perpetual, eternal, continual
The English word immortality itself goes back to Latin mortālis, through immortālitās.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
immortality
immortalitas: aeternitas [SYN. in ETERNAL]. (The words are found in this connection and order.) aeternitas immortalitasque. An immortality of glory, immortalis or sempiterna gloria: the immortality of the soul, immortalitas or aeternitas animi, or animorum (☞ in this sense immortalitas must not be used alone, unless animi or animorum is implied by the context. Vid: Cic., Cat., Mae., 21, 78; Tusc., 1, 22, 50, and 33, 80). Plato’s book on the immortality of the soul, Platonis liber, qui immortalitatem animae docet: to maintain the immortality of the soul, dicere animos hominum esse immortales or sempiternos: to wish to establish or prove the immortality of the soul, hoc velle persuadere, non interire animas: to win immortality, immortalitatem consequi, or adipisci, or sibi parere (general term); immortalem or sempiternam gloriam consequi (an immortality of glory).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for immortality?
- The usual Latin words for “immortality” are immortālitās, aeternitās, immortālis; also animus, sempiternus. 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.