English → Latin
“improp.” in Latin
cōnsīderōto examine, look at or inspect, survey; to consider, reflect, contemplate, meditateperpendōto weigh or examine carefully or exactly, ponder, considercontemplorto observe, note or notice; to gaze at or regard; to contemplatepropriusappropriate to oneself: (one's) proper, (one's) own (inalienably); belonging to oneself as property, or goods: (one's) operperusfaulty, defective; wrong, incorrectiūdicōto examine judicially, judge, pass judgement, decide; condemn; to judge; proclaim; determine, conclude; adjudgeinterpretorto explain, expound; to interpret, translate; to understand, concludevitiōsusfull of faults or defects; faulty, defective, bad, corrupt; morally faulty, wicked, depraved, vicioussecusotherwise, to the contrary; differentlymalusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, m
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
improp.
contemplari animo, or animo et cogitatione: considerare secum in animo, or simply contemplari or considerare, and (the words are found in this connection and order), contemplari et considerare: referre animum ad aliquid (to direct one’s mind to any object); lustrare animo, or ratione animoque: perlustrare animo, or mente animoque: circumspicere mente: perpendere, expendgre (weigh): to contemplate anything with the utmost care, aliquid quam maxime intentis oculis, ut ajunt, acerrime contemplari: to contemplate the thing as it really is, ad veritatem revocare rationem: to contemplate one’s self, considerare se ipsum cum animo: contemplatione sui frui.
improp.
☞ improprie, post-Augustan; only opposed to proprie; of words, etc., e.g., haud improprie appellatus, Plin.: perperam (wrongly; e.g., judicare, interpretari, aliquid facere): vitiose (faultily): secus (otherwise than as it should be; e.g., judicare): male (ill): non recte (not rightly; e.g., judicare, facere).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for improp.?
- The usual Latin words for “improp.” are cōnsīderō, perpendō, contemplor; also proprius, perperus, iūdicō. 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.