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“intrigue” in Latin
arsart, skill, craft, handicraft; trade, occupation, employment; cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagemartificiumart, craft, skill, talent, artifice, craftsmanship; profession, trade, an employmentfallāxdeceptive, deceitful; fallacious, spuriousfallāciadeception, deceitcalumniaA cunning device, trickery, artifice, sophistry, chicanery.; A pretence, evasion, subterfuge.; A misrepresentation, falsmalusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, mfingōto shape, fashion, form, knead (dough); to touch, touch gently, stroke, stroke gently, handle; to adorn, dress, arrange
The English word intrigue itself goes back to Latin trīcae, through intrīcō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
intrigue s.
Political intrigue, ars: artificium (artifice): fallacia (deceit, intrigue): better in plur. artes (malae): fallaciae (cabals, intrigues): consilia clandestina (hidden designs): calumniae (malicious slander, false accusation). By anybody’s intrigues, alicujus opera: the rejection of the offered peace was caused by the intrigues of those who, etc., pacem ne acciperent, eorum opera effectum est, qui, etc.
Love intrigue, res amatoria. Intrigues, amores: notorious for his intrigues, multarum amoribus famosus: to have an intrigue, amori operam dare: to be fond of intrigues, amores consectari: ☞ These expressions apply to any love affairs. Clandestinus may be added.
intrigue v.
fallacias facere, fingere; consilia clandestina concoquere; dare operam consiliis clandestinis, with ut (to endeavor to effect by intrigues); likewise calumnias facere; multa machinari: to intrigue against anybody, fallaciam in aliquem intendere; consiliis clandestinis oppugnare aliquem; alicui dolum nectere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for intrigue?
- The usual Latin words for “intrigue” are ars, artificium, fallāx; also fallācia, calumnia, malus. 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.