English → Latin
“incorrectness” in Latin
prāvitāscrookedness, inequality, irregularity, deformity; impropriety, perverseness; viciousness, untowardness, depravityvitiumflaw, defect, blemish, imperfection; vice; crime, wrongdoing, misdeed, sin, error, fault
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
incorrectness
mendosa alicujus rei natura (after Hor., Sat., 1, 6, 66): pravitas (perverseness, wrongness): vitium (fault). ☞ Not mendositas or vitiositas. Incorrectness of style, vitiosus sermo (faulty style); inquinatus sermo (impure style, with reference to the expressions). ☞ If = “untruth,” it must be rendered by falsus (for falsitas has no classical authority, veritas being the reading of the best manuscripts in Cic., Cluent., 2). To prove the incorrectness of any statement, aliquid falsum esse probare (Quint., 2, 17, 17).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for incorrectness?
- The usual Latin words for “incorrectness” are prāvitās, vitium. 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.