English → Latin
“infatuation” in Latin
animuslife, life force, soul, vitality (that life-giving aspect which animates a thing); conscience, intellect, mind, reason, fūrorto steal, plunder; to take away by stealth, remove secretly, to withdrawstultitiaFolly, stupidity, foolishness, simplicity, silliness, fatuity.dēmēnsout of one’s mind or senses: mad, raving, insane, crazy; more generally: foolish, reckless, distracted, infatuatedVelleiusof or pertaining to the gens Velleia.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
infatuation
caecitas mentis or animi (mental blinding): furor (from passion): sometimes stultitia (folly): dementia (madness). [Vid: FOLLY.] Such was his infatuation., tantus eum furor ceperat; eo vecordiae processerat (Sall., Jug., 5); processit in id furoris (Velleius, 2, 80).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for infatuation?
- The usual Latin words for “infatuation” are animus, fūror, stultitia; also dēmēns, Velleius. 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.