English → Latin
“innocent” in Latin
innocēnsharmless, inoffensive, innoxious; blameless, guiltless, innocentīnsōnsinnocent; harmlesscareōto lack, be without. (usually with ablative), to be deprived of; to be separated fromintegercomplete, whole, intact, uninjured, sound, healthysānctussacred, made inviolable, having been established as sacred.; sanctified or made holy; venerable, august, divine, blessedsimplexsingle; simple, plain, uncompounded; pure, unmixedpudīcuschaste, pure, undefiled; modest, shamefaced, bashful; virtuous, honorable or honourable, faithfulepistolaa letter, epistle; a written imperial decreecibusfood, fodder; nourishment, sustenance; mealsanguī̆sblood; descent, descendant, parentage, progeny, blood relative, flesh-and-blood, family, race; blood (consanguinity)
The English word innocent itself goes back to Latin noceō, through innocēns.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
innocent
Without guilt, innocens (doing no harm, general term; also of things; e.g., letter, epistola, cibus, sanguis; then of him who does not do any wrong, or has no share in a crime): insons: culpa vacuus or carens (guiltless, not deserving any blame): integer (of him who has resisted all temptations to do evil): sanctus (virtuous, moral; also of things, vita): simplex (figuratively, simple, that bears no concealed meaning of things; e.g., verba, ☞ Bremi, Suet., Tiberius, 61). To be innocent, extra noxiam esse; extra culpam esse; culpa vacuum esse; culpa carere: to be innocent of anything, insontem esse alicujus rei (e.g., consilii publici, of a resolution taken by the people; as Liv., 34, 32).
Chaste, etc., integer (of a pure life, in general): pudicus (modest): castus a rebus venereis, or simply castus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) castus et integer.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for innocent?
- The usual Latin words for “innocent” are innocēns, īnsōns, careō; also integer, sānctus, simplex. 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.