English → Latin
“instructive” in Latin
ūtilisuseful, serviceable, beneficial, profitable, advantageous; helpful; fit, suitable, adapted, propervirtūsmanhood, manliness, virility; courage, valor, resoluteness, gallantry; virtue, goodnessliberbook; the inner bark of a treeīnfōrmōto form, mould, fashion, give shape to; to delineate, sketch, form an idea; to inform, instruct, educatealiusother; another; any other; else; different
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
instructive
utilis (profitable), or, by circumlocution, qui (quae, quod) aliquid docet (e.g., virtutem, Quint.). Instructive books for children, libri, quibus aetas puerilis ad humanitatem (ad virtutem, etc.) informatur or informari solet (after Cic., Arch., 3, 4). To others practice will be found more instructive than precept, alii, quod fortasse praeceptis non credunt, usu docebuntur (Quint., 3, S, 70). To give an instructive turn to the conversation, *sermonem ad ea, quae sunt frugi, deflectere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for instructive?
- The usual Latin words for “instructive” are ūtilis, virtūs, liber; also īnfōrmō, alius. 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.