English → Latin
“incident” in Latin
cāsusa fall, downwards movement; accident, chance; an event, happening, occurrencecalamitōsuscalamitous, disastrous, ruinous, destructiveinopīnātusunexpected, unsupposedet cēteraet cetera, and the rest, and so on: used to note that the rest of a list or piece of information continues in a similar
The English word incident itself goes back to Latin cadō, through incidens.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
incident adj.
by circumlocution. Dangers which are incident to anybody, casus periculorum, ad quos objectus est aliquis (Cic.): diseases incident to a climate, *morbi, qui in regione aliqua vulgo ingruunt. To be incident to anybody, cadere in aliquem or aliquid (e.g., anybody is liable to it): alicui rei or ad aliquid objectus est aliquis (he is exposed to it).
incident s.
casus: res: Melancholy incidents, casus miseri, calamitosi: an unexpected incident, casus improvisus, inopinatus: various incidents, rerum vicissitudines: many incidents happen, incidunt saspe casus, etc. The incidents of a play, argumentum fabulae (the subject generally); or res (general term).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for incident?
- The usual Latin words for “incident” are cāsus, calamitōsus, inopīnātus; also et cētera. 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.