English → Latin
“intenseness” in Latin
volōto wish, to please; to want; to mean, to intendgravitāsweight, heaviness; gravity, seriousness; severity, harshnessasperitāsunevenness, roughness; harshness, sharpness, acidity, tartness; severity, fierceness, asperityrigōto irrigate, to lead, convey or conduct (a liquid to a place); to wet, moisten, water or bedew something with a liquid; saevitiaA raging; rage, ferocity, fierceness, fury.; Violence, savageness, savagery, cruelty, severity.morbusa disease, illness, malady, sickness, disorder, distemper, ailment; a fault, vice, failing; sorrow, grief, distressfrīguscold, coldness, coolness, chilliness; the cold of winter; winter; frost; the coldness of death; deathhiemswinter; storm, stormy weather, tempest
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
intenseness
vis (intensive strength; for which Pliny is the first who uses vehementia): gravitas (the heavy, oppressive weight; e.g., morbi): asperitas (severity; e.g., frigorum, Tac.): rigor (e.g., frigoris): saevitia (e.g., frigorum, hiemis). The intensity of the cold, intolerabilis vis frigoris: ☞ intentio = “strained or stretched state,” can only be used with cogitationum, etc., for “intenseness of mental application;” so contentio animi (both opposed to relaxatio): the intensity of the storm, vis tempestatis.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for intenseness?
- The usual Latin words for “intenseness” are volō, gravitās, asperitās; also rigō, saevitia, morbus. 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.