English → Latin
“insensible” in Latin
torpidusbenumbed, stupefied, torpiddūrushard; rough; harsh; hardy; vigorouslentussticky, tenacious; slow, sluggish; flexible, pliantīnsēnsibilisimperceptible, insensible (that cannot be perceived by the senses); undetectableinhūmānusinhuman; savage, barbarous; uncivil, unmannerly, churlish, discourteoussuscipiōto take up, acknowledge; to undertake, assume, begin, incur, enter upon (especially when done voluntarily and as a favor
The English word insensible itself goes back to Latin sentiō, through īnsēnsibilis.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
insensible
sensu carens (PROP.; ☞ in Lactantius, 1, 11, extr., and elsewhere, insensibilis): torpidus (PROP., stiff with cold, numb, without feeling): durus (IMPROP.; hard, inhumane): lentus (IMPROP., with reference to taking offence; phlegmatic). To be insensible, sensu carere; sensibus alienatum esse (PROP.): to be insensible to anything, aliquid non sentire (not to feel it); aliquid non accipere or suscipere (not to receive it; e.g., consolation); non tangi aliqua re (not to be touched or affected by it); lente ferre aliquid (to bear it with sluggish indifference). I am become quite insensible to pain, callum obduxi dolori; animus ad dolorem obduruit: to grow insensible to any evil from long acquaintance with it, assuetudine mali efferare animum: anybody is insensible to the gentler feelings of our nature, nullus in aliquo sensus humanitatis.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for insensible?
- The usual Latin words for “insensible” are torpidus, dūrus, lentus; also īnsēnsibilis, inhūmānus, suscipiō. 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.