English → Latin
“insidious” in Latin
īnsidiōsuscunning, deceitful, insidious; dangerous, hazardousdolōsuscrafty, cunning, deceitfulsubdoluscrafty, cunning, sly, subtlefraudulentusdeceitful, fraudulent; dishonest, falseverbumword; proverb, saying; verbanimuslife, life force, soul, vitality (that life-giving aspect which animates a thing); conscience, intellect, mind, reason, ōrātiōspeech, discourse, language; the power of speech; manner or style of speaking
The English word insidious itself goes back to Latin sedeō, through īnsidiōsus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
insidious
insidiosus (ensnaring; lying in wait to ensnare or entrap; of persons, and also of things; e.g., verba, Cic.): dolosus (tricky): subdolus (not Cic.; animus, Sall.; oratio, Caes., ; lingua, Ov.): fraudulentus (deceitful). Insidious questions, captiosae interrogationes.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for insidious?
- The usual Latin words for “insidious” are īnsidiōsus, dolōsus, subdolus; also fraudulentus, verbum, animus. 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.